RxDoctor Payments Data

Howard Dubner

Gastroenterology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1760448088

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,024in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $19.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$920
  • Johnson & Johnson$863
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$579
  • Celltrion USA Inc.$292
  • Sanofi$99
  • Merck$56
  • plus $216 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,87295%
  • Education$1525%

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

$3,024 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$317,726
Medicare patients
388
Services billed
10,791

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
EntyvioVedolizumab11$105,064
Mesalamine159$96,720
Dupixent PenDupilumab13$93,445
LinzessLinaclotide120$75,289
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab11$74,927
MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate34$29,309
Budesonide DrBudesonide67$8,781
Mercaptopurine71$8,276
Ursodiol12$4,495
Colestipol Hcl46$4,200
Omeprazole244$4,065
Budesonide EcBudesonide37$2,966
Vancomycin Hcl12$2,605
Pantoprazole Sodium181$2,524
Lansoprazole38$2,503

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
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Entyvio, Motegrity$579$134,37245 claims
AbbVieLinzess$920$75,289120 claims
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLCSodium Chloride$34$90658 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 55th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.

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