Ella Lepage
Gastroenterology · Plano, TXNPI 1407316151
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 243 payments — averaging $33.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$854
- Johnson & Johnson$820
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$485
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$417
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,09999%
- Education$1191%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 61 | $1,865 |
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $1,030 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 33 | $854 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $820 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $485 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $417 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $416 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $327 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $314 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $236 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $192 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $189 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 5 | $188 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $173 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Merck | 5 | $108 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 4 | $105 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $102 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $69 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Organon | 1 | $21 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$8,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.
Other gastroenterology in Plano
- Eric LawitzSan Antonio$59.5M
- George DuvallTyler$17.5M
- John FordtranDallas$9.9M
- Timothy RitterSouthlake$7.7M
- Parvez MantryDallas$6.4M
- Mazen NoureddinHouston$6.1M
- Nadege GunnWaco$5.7M
- Michael BrownDallas$5.5M
- James MaherHouston$5.3M
- Stephen HarrisonLive Oak$5.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.