RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Barshop, MD

Gastroenterology · Branford, CTNPI 1316396690

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,459in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $19.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$314
  • Gilead$202
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$157
  • Johnson & Johnson$118
  • Pfizer$83
  • plus $543 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,39597%
  • Gifts$643%

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

$2,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 326 gastroenterology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$46,225
Medicare patients
210
Services billed
339

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
LinzessLinaclotide27$33,153
Mesalamine16$10,623
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates124$8,091
Omeprazole290$4,401
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)45$2,545
Esomeprazole Magnesium51$1,733
Colestipol Hcl16$1,113
Famotidine85$1,025
Pantoprazole Sodium83$982
Dicyclomine Hcl18$463
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl23$434
Hydrocortisone22$312
Nortriptyline Hcl31$184
Procto-Med HcHydrocortisone12$82
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron15$64

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$1,043$33,15327 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 326 gastroenterology providers in Connecticut.

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