RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthew Meriwether, MD

Gastroenterology · New Braunfels, TXNPI 1902253081

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,446in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 414 payments — averaging $20.40 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$795
  • QOL Medical, LLC$645
  • Johnson & Johnson$493
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$472
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$295
  • plus $3K from 33 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,446100%

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

$8,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$206,138
Medicare patients
464
Services billed
4,803

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
LinzessLinaclotide38$32,372
XifaxanRifaximin11$27,843
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac121$19,107
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate20$11,541
Pantoprazole Sodium284$2,975
Omeprazole167$2,273
Colesevelam Hcl25$1,103
Dicyclomine Hcl71$711
Sucralfate23$424
Hydrocortisone24$397
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg19$379
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl26$367
Esomeprazole Magnesium18$337
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl18$253
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron18$216

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$2,293$32,37238 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$795$27,84311 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$134$19,107121 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$14$11,54120 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 70th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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