RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Kaufman, MD

Gastroenterology · Bethesda, MDNPI 1548229446

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,255in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 402 payments — averaging $23.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Alfasigma USA, Inc.$1K
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$926
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$846
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$580
  • Johnson & Johnson$503
  • plus $3K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,00011%
  • Food & beverage$8,20589%
  • Education$491%

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

$9,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 455 gastroenterology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$42,845
Medicare patients
238
Services billed
346

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
LinzessLinaclotide33$31,882
IbsrelaTenapanor Hcl11$19,250
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole34$9,911
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf26$4,173
Budesonide DrBudesonide11$2,626
Omeprazole166$2,336
Esomeprazole Magnesium40$1,727
Sucralfate13$1,164
Pantoprazole Sodium53$908
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates11$611
Lansoprazole12$581
Famotidine32$535
Dicyclomine Hcl17$247
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron17$202
Ondansetron Hcl12$139

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$1,949$31,88233 claims
Ardelyx, Inc.Ibsrela$303$19,25011 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$48$4,17326 claims
SandozLansoprazole$29$58112 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 75th percentile of 455 gastroenterology providers in Maryland.

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