RxDoctor Payments Data

Ghassan Al-Sabbagh, MD

Gastroenterology · Wake Forest, NCNPI 1487617858

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,118in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 467 payments — averaging $17.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$857
  • Gilead$751
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$702
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$371
  • Pfizer$368
  • plus $3K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,085100%
  • Education$330%

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

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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.

How this compares

$8,118 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 610 gastroenterology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$98,399
Medicare patients
340
Services billed
795

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
LinzessLinaclotide150$123,849
OcalivaObeticholic Acid12$110,791
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates358$24,211
Mesalamine21$17,237
Budesonide ErBudesonide11$11,384
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac30$5,106
Sucralfate67$4,698
Famotidine246$3,500
Mesalamine ErMesalamine15$3,107
Omeprazole251$2,653
Lubiprostone16$2,617
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf12$1,942
Pantoprazole Sodium168$1,762
Ursodiol12$1,524
Dicyclomine Hcl23$536

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieLinzess$2,190$123,849150 claims
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva$371$110,79112 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$191$5,10630 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$91$1,94212 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 610 gastroenterology providers in North Carolina.

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