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Gastroenterology · Mesa, AZNPI 1700841350
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 132 payments — averaging $19.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$786
- AbbVie$499
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$386
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$217
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$128
- Merck$116
- plus $465 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,51897%
- Gifts$803%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 38 | $786 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $499 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 27 | $386 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $217 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 4 | $128 |
| Merck | 1 | $116 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 5 | $97 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $73 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $37 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $21 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Qiagen, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,598 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 355 gastroenterology providers in Arizona.
Other gastroenterology in Mesa
- David LeffMesa$377K
- Doo Sang ChoMesa$311K
- David TesslerMesa$213K
- Joseph DavisChandler$7.4M
- Sam MoussaTucson$3.9M
- Manreet KaurScottsdale$2.5M
- Bassel KissoTucson$2.3M
- Fadi DeebTucson$1.5M
- Chirag TrivediSun City$954K
- Joel BrillParadise Valley$850K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.