Luis Galvez, MD
Gastroenterology · Atlanta, GANPI 1326039231
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 396 payments — averaging $16.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$953
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$480
- Bristol Myers Squibb$451
- Johnson & Johnson$345
- Pfizer$275
- plus $2K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,46497%
- Education$1913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 143 | $2,351 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 60 | $953 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 24 | $480 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 31 | $451 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $345 |
| Pfizer | 20 | $275 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $216 |
| Merck | 10 | $170 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $128 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 7 | $127 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $111 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $96 |
| Vivus LLC | 5 | $90 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $78 |
| Gilead | 3 | $71 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $47 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $44 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 6 | $39 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $32 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $21 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Lumendi LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$6,656 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XifaxanRifaximin | 15 | $40,922 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 29 | $23,161 |
| CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase | 21 | $17,017 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 184 | $12,064 |
| Mesalamine | 20 | $8,202 |
| Sucralfate | 58 | $4,229 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 40 | $3,430 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 245 | $2,935 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 11 | $2,427 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 49 | $2,197 |
| Lansoprazole | 68 | $1,491 |
| CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar) | 20 | $1,487 |
| Omeprazole | 100 | $1,189 |
| Famotidine | 78 | $609 |
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 32 | $532 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan | $953 | $40,92215 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Creon | $2,351 | $40,17850 claims |
| SandozLansoprazole | $21 | $1,49168 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 60th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.
Other gastroenterology in Atlanta
- Douglas WolfAtlanta$6.4M
- Michael GalambosAtlanta$1.8M
- Nitin GuptaAtlanta$1.7M
- Heba IskandarAtlanta$978K
- Cynthia RudertAtlanta$720K
- Kavita KongaraAtlanta$492K
- Girish AnandAtlanta$425K
- Julia LiuAtlanta$412K
- Norman GitlinAtlanta$399K
- Saul KarpenAtlanta$368K
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.