RxDoctor Payments Data

James Chou, MD

Gastroenterology · Boston, MANPI 1285661652

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,202in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $19.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$732
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$522
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$258
  • Gilead$197
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$115
  • Redhill Biopharma Inc.$91
  • plus $288 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,196100%
  • Education$70%

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

$2,202 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 579 gastroenterology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$141,578
Medicare patients
239
Services billed
3,136

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase14$63,292
LinzessLinaclotide77$57,637
Mesalamine24$35,752
TrulancePlecanatide23$14,689
PentasaMesalamine14$14,435
Sucralfate56$4,744
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate11$4,730
Omeprazole205$4,691
Lubiprostone11$4,670
Peg3350-Sod Sul-Nacl-Kcl-Asb-CPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C70$4,404
Famotidine177$3,516
Entecavir20$2,954
Pantoprazole Sodium119$2,370
Lansoprazole106$2,273
Mesalamine ErMesalamine14$2,196

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$732$120,92991 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$522$14,68923 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 579 gastroenterology providers in Massachusetts.

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