RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Garone, MD

Gastroenterology · Fairfax, VANPI 1255311189

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.7%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 37 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 57.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $37,915 and has fallen 57.9% since, to $15,948 in 2025. Among gastroenterology clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$63,720in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 672 payments — averaging $94.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$36K
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$16K
  • Johnson & Johnson$3K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
  • Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$728
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$725
  • plus $5K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$13,90022%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$28,50045%
  • Travel & lodging$4,0196%
  • Food & beverage$16,58026%
  • Education$1330%
  • Gifts$5871%

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

$63,720 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$233,788
Medicare patients
376
Services billed
5,932

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
StelaraUstekinumab35$950,007
Mesalamine37$22,563
Mesalamine ErMesalamine19$9,425
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole13$5,312
Balsalazide Disodium11$3,985
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates45$2,732
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf16$2,605
Pantoprazole Sodium105$1,844
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)17$1,201
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl41$521
Famotidine44$453
Omeprazole27$221

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
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$2,590$950,00735 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$728$2,60516 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 95th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

Other gastroenterology in Fairfax

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