RxDoctor Payments Data

Raffi Karagozian, MD

Gastroenterology · Boston, MANPI 1356394233

Payments from drug & device makers

$68,230in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $1218.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch Health US, LLC$43K
  • Eli Lilly$12K
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$8K
  • Gilead$5K
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$440
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$208
  • plus $806 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,29031%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,05850%
  • Travel & lodging$1,0047%
  • Food & beverage$1,64112%
  • Education$120%

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

$68,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 579 gastroenterology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,528
Medicare patients
274
Services billed
499

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
OcalivaObeticholic Acid23$254,873
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide39$57,452
RezdiffraResmetirom14$55,930
Ursodiol108$29,143
Entecavir27$17,477
Azathioprine40$2,537
Tacrolimus15$1,454
Mycophenolate Mofetil33$1,121
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified18$1,119
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl62$959
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl21$381
Midodrine Hcl13$356
Pantoprazole Sodium21$340
Omeprazole29$292
Ciprofloxacin Hcl11$258

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
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva$440$254,87323 claims
GileadVemlidy$4,749$57,45239 claims
Madrigal PharmaceuticalsRezdiffra$190$55,93014 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 85th percentile of 579 gastroenterology providers in Massachusetts.

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