RxDoctor Payments Data

Lindsey Russell, MD

Gastroenterology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1326755331

Payments from drug & device makers

$128,379in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 13 payments — averaging $9875.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc$84K
  • Cormedix Inc.$37K
  • Baxter Healthcare$7K
  • Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$170
  • AstraZeneca$71
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$19

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,78853%
  • Food & beverage$3986%
  • Education$2,92541%

General payments by program year

23
25

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

$128,379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,759
Medicare patients
224
Services billed
477

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
GattexTeduglutide35$1,784,704
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase21$45,463
XifaxanRifaximin11$14,412
LinzessLinaclotide20$10,900
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl84$8,351
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine89$6,766
Octreotide Acetate16$5,299
Sodium PhosphateSod Phosphate,monobasic-Dibas25$3,646
Opium Tincture18$3,236
Pantoprazole Sodium111$1,767
Sodium ChlorideSodium Chloride 0.45 %93$1,686
Lactated RingersRinger's Solution,lactated14$1,685
Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride92$1,357
Codeine Sulfate12$735
Famotidine66$642

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
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLCSodium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Magnesium Sulfate$170$3,471225 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 85th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.

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