Has Iqbal Sandhu received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,364 in general payments to Iqbal Sandhu across 117 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Iqbal Sandhu did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Iqbal Sandhu come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Iqbal Sandhu

Gastroenterology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1740391622

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,922 of the $10,364 with a category attached, or 76.4%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 48.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,611 and has fallen 83.1% since, to $609 in 2025.

$10,364in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 117 payments — averaging $88.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$5K
AbbVie$2K
Conmed Corporation$444
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$413
Covidien LP$369
Cook Medical LLC$288
plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,44224%
Food & beverage$7,92276%

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
Boston Scientific	62	$5,052
AbbVie	17	$1,910
Conmed Corporation	5	$444
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$413
Covidien LP	4	$369
Cook Medical LLC	6	$288
Gilead	2	$244
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$230
EMD Serono, Inc.	2	$219
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$203
Sanofi	2	$201
Pfizer	2	$184
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	1	$143
Dova Pharmaceuticals	1	$123
Intuitive Surgical	1	$115
Pentax Of America, Inc.	1	$85
Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc.	1	$73
GI Supply, Inc.	1	$68

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

$10,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 122 gastroenterology providers in Utah.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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