RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Wegmann, MD

Gastroenterology · Metairie, LANPI 1114095965

Payments from drug & device makers

$14,023in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 861 payments — averaging $16.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$5K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$991
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$723
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$616
  • plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13,87699%
  • Education$1471%

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

$14,023 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$138,061
Medicare patients
366
Services billed
3,241

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
LinzessLinaclotide149$106,864
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac206$32,914
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide11$17,914
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf70$11,445
TrulancePlecanatide16$10,205
Pantoprazole Sodium591$6,100
Mesalamine30$5,640
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine46$4,359
Lubiprostone33$4,254
Omeprazole237$3,447
Famotidine216$3,170
Budesonide DrBudesonide23$2,548
Dicyclomine Hcl101$1,721
Lactulose39$1,282
Ondansetron Hcl116$1,282

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$4,781$106,864149 claims
GileadVemlidy$405$17,91411 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$50$11,44570 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$1,334$10,20516 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 75th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.

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