RxDoctor Payments Data

Pragnesh Patel, MD

Gastroenterology · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1265787360

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,106in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 462 payments — averaging $19.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
  • Gilead$461
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$398
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$372
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$361
  • plus $4K from 42 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,83697%
  • Education$1442%
  • Gifts$1261%

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

$9,106 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$173,529
Medicare patients
350
Services billed
1,964

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
XifaxanRifaximin19$56,307
LinzessLinaclotide64$49,976
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide12$19,721
Mesalamine28$9,644
PlenvuPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C66$9,000
Sucralfate37$6,808
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate16$6,657
Ursodiol24$3,679
Pantoprazole Sodium167$3,231
Omeprazole171$3,185
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates47$2,745
Dicyclomine Hcl83$1,951
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)18$1,248
Esomeprazole Magnesium17$1,162
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron25$1,108

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, Plenvu$1,726$65,30785 claims
AbbVieLinzess$1,859$49,97664 claims
GileadVemlidy$461$19,72112 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$107$6,65716 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 70th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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