RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Ruh, MD

Gastroenterology · Eau Claire, WINPI 1578670832

Payments from drug & device makers

$942in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $26.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$284
  • Boston Scientific$167
  • AbbVie$144
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$47
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$46
  • Sanofi$39
  • plus $215 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$75480%
  • Education$18820%

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

$942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 285 gastroenterology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$92,212
Medicare patients
363
Services billed
791

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
StelaraUstekinumab16$440,451
LinzessLinaclotide15$11,515
TrulancePlecanatide13$7,080
Mesalamine21$5,662
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl120$2,076
Sucralfate42$1,906
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl86$1,569
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)15$1,273
Omeprazole71$1,189
Lansoprazole21$965
Mercaptopurine12$880
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl61$870
Pantoprazole Sodium30$133
Nortriptyline Hcl31$82
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium13$72

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$284$440,45116 claims
AbbVieLinzess$144$11,51515 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 60th percentile of 285 gastroenterology providers in Wisconsin.

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