Has Janak Bahirwani, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,042 in general payments to Janak Bahirwani, MD across 21 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 Janak Bahirwani, MD 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 Janak Bahirwani, MD 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.

Janak Bahirwani, MD

Gastroenterology · Richland, WANPI 1265928501

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,042in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $97.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$364
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$249
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$247
Sanofi$219
Johnson & Johnson$207
United Therapeutics Corporation$130
plus $626 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,042100%

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	3	$364
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$249
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$247
Sanofi	2	$219
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$207
United Therapeutics Corporation	2	$130
AbbVie	1	$126
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$125
Medtronic	2	$100
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$86
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	1	$85
Pfizer	1	$76
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$28

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

$2,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 447 gastroenterology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$21,698

Medicare patients

Services billed

146

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Omeprazole	44	$511
Pantoprazole Sodium	31	$312
Famotidine	11	$292
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	18	$290
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	14	$205

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Richland

Kris KowdleySeattle$5.9M
Michael ChioreanIssaquah$3.9M
Scott LeeSeattle$3.7M
Timothy ZismanSeattle$3.3M
William HoldermanTacoma$3.1M
James LordSeattle$1.9M
Charles LandisSeattle$1.7M
Robert WohlmanBellevue$1.5M
Asma SiddiqueSeattle$1.3M
Harold PreiksaitisSpokane$1M

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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