RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Verhille, MD

Gastroenterology · San Francisco, CANPI 1851324537

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $20.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$849
  • Gilead$224
  • Johnson & Johnson$195
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$141
  • Pfizer$130
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$126
  • plus $598 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,263100%

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

$2,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$95,089
Medicare patients
400
Services billed
646

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
XifaxanRifaximin14$59,590
Mesalamine79$34,730
LinzessLinaclotide37$23,556
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates159$10,610
Sucralfate33$5,992
Mesalamine ErMesalamine24$4,660
AprisoMesalamine11$3,384
DexilantDexlansoprazole11$3,332
Pantoprazole Sodium136$3,151
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf17$2,752
Lansoprazole24$2,154
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate17$1,095
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl62$1,044
Budesonide DrBudesonide19$1,021
Dicyclomine Hcl45$640

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, Apriso$141$62,97525 claims
AbbVieLinzess$849$23,55637 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Dexilant$126$3,33211 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$49$2,75217 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 50th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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