RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravi Ghanta, MD

Gastroenterology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1871799973

Payments from drug & device makers

$453in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $37.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$134
  • Novo Nordisk$112
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$66
  • AbbVie$64
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$30
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$29
  • plus $19 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$42493%
  • Education$307%

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

$453 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$75,195
Medicare patients
293
Services billed
617

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 Acid12$110,791
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase13$31,265
XifaxanRifaximin11$30,127
Colestipol Hcl17$2,459
Sucralfate58$2,363
Budesonide DrBudesonide15$1,830
Pantoprazole Sodium143$1,533
Omeprazole79$1,462
Dicyclomine Hcl35$1,368
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine21$911
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron29$890
Cholestyramine LightCholestyramine12$796
Azathioprine16$742
Esomeprazole Magnesium18$698
Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine13$696

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
AbbVieCreon$64$31,26513 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 20th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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