RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Baker, MD

Gastroenterology · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1255487831

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,514in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $18.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$601
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$126
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$116
  • Pfizer$91
  • Sanofi$87
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$82
  • plus $411 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,514100%

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

$1,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 304 gastroenterology providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$129,131
Medicare patients
457
Services billed
792

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
XifaxanRifaximin15$47,836
LinzessLinaclotide43$26,382
Esomeprazole Magnesium31$3,936
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf22$3,620
SuflavePeg 3350/Sod Sulf,chlr/Pot/Mag27$3,382
Ursodiol24$2,881
Omeprazole179$2,504
Budesonide DrBudesonide34$2,203
Colestipol Hcl22$1,913
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg75$1,852
Sucralfate23$1,757
Pantoprazole Sodium103$1,674
Famotidine58$1,311
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine13$1,011
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine16$949

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$82$47,83615 claims
AbbVieLinzess$601$26,38243 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 304 gastroenterology providers in Colorado.

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