Rakesh Vinayek
Gastroenterology · Indianapolis, INNPI 1457382210
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 338 payments — averaging $18.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Gilead$988
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$487
- Boston Scientific$433
- Echosens North America, Inc.$424
- Merck$300
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$300%
- Food & beverage$6,380100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 146 | $2,246 |
| Gilead | 51 | $988 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 36 | $487 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $433 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 4 | $424 |
| Merck | 17 | $300 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $282 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 16 | $276 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $150 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $113 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $95 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Amgen | 2 | $53 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $30 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $27 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $15 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- FibroScan$260
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$143
- EXALT Model D$119
- ACQUIRE$118
- Mavyret$103
How this compares
$6,410 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 14 | $297 |
| Famotidine | 30 | $256 |
| Omeprazole | 12 | $167 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Indianapolis
- Monika FischerIndianapolis$2.8M
- Douglas RexIndianapolis$2.3M
- David PoundIndianapolis$1.4M
- Naga ChalasaniIndianapolis$1.1M
- Marwan GhabrilIndianapolis$464K
- Ajay JainIndianapolis$432K
- Mark GromskiIndianapolis$408K
- John WoIndianapolis$334K
- Paul HaynesIndianapolis$308K
- Craig LammertIndianapolis$239K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.