RxDoctor Payments Data

Jason Sugar, MD

Gastroenterology · Tacoma, WANPI 1558572651

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,994in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $74.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gastrogpo, LLC$2K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • AbbVie$884
  • Johnson & Johnson$473
  • Pfizer$283
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$227
  • plus $498 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2144%
  • Travel & lodging$2,71745%
  • Food & beverage$3,06251%

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.

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

$5,994 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 447 gastroenterology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$70,273
Medicare patients
348
Services billed
517

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
StelaraUstekinumab11$297,860
Mesalamine23$5,295
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl110$1,825
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl99$1,763
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl80$1,578
Omeprazole77$995
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg31$784
Sulfasalazine17$560
Pantoprazole Sodium41$434

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
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$473$297,86011 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 80th percentile of 447 gastroenterology providers in Washington.

Other gastroenterology in Tacoma

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