RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Lewis, MD

Gastroenterology · Los Angeles, CANPI 1356582746

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,285in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $17.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Sanofi$135
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$20
  • Johnson & Johnson$16
  • Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$16

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,26999%
  • Education$161%

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

$1,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$125,774
Medicare patients
416
Services billed
981

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
LinzessLinaclotide74$60,694
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase22$42,144
XifaxanRifaximin15$35,120
MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate20$16,130
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole33$6,716
Mesalamine16$4,061
Famotidine189$2,743
Pantoprazole Sodium238$2,347
Omeprazole129$2,199
Sucralfate16$1,424
Colestipol Hcl13$1,361
Ursodiol12$989
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)14$923
Dicyclomine Hcl35$614
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl24$516

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
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$1,098$102,83896 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$20$35,12015 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 40th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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