RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravi Ganeshappa, MD

Gastroenterology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1457459695

Payments from drug & device makers

$104,112in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 549 payments — averaging $189.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$81K
  • AbbVie$7K
  • Pfizer$4K
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$3K
  • Boston Scientific$816
  • Johnson & Johnson$778
  • plus $7K from 40 others
$32,139in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $10,713 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$32K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6,81829%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,9358%
  • Travel & lodging$390%
  • Food & beverage$14,76662%
  • Education$1911%

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

$104,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$101,786
Medicare patients
418
Services billed
1,120

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
XifaxanRifaximin16$66,892
LinzessLinaclotide58$57,647
IbsrelaTenapanor Hcl17$27,381
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole48$17,984
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac59$9,715
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf44$7,182
Omeprazole427$5,317
PlenvuPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C34$4,656
Pantoprazole Sodium213$2,502
Mesalamine ErMesalamine11$2,449
Balsalazide Disodium13$2,340
Budesonide DrBudesonide19$1,780
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl114$1,766
Dicyclomine Hcl74$1,416
Colestipol Hcl24$1,358

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$650$71,54850 claims
AbbVieLinzess$7,330$57,64758 claims
Ardelyx, Inc.Ibsrela$480$27,38117 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$14$9,71559 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$12$7,18244 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 90th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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