RxDoctor Payments Data

Ravikant Varanasi, MD

Gastroenterology · Pinehurst, NCNPI 1467494021

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,538in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $19.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$825
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$173
  • Pfizer$107
  • Johnson & Johnson$73
  • Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$72
  • Evoke Pharma, Inc.$41
  • plus $246 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,46695%
  • Gifts$725%

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.

How this compares

$1,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 610 gastroenterology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$341,371
Medicare patients
581
Services billed
17,277

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
XifaxanRifaximin13$36,220
LinzessLinaclotide34$20,992
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates152$10,283
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole18$10,143
Mesalamine22$7,035
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg275$6,563
Pantoprazole Sodium193$4,954
Omeprazole330$4,285
Colestipol Hcl64$3,629
Lubiprostone22$3,531
Mesalamine ErMesalamine15$2,883
Sucralfate37$1,303
Budesonide DrBudesonide16$1,127
Esomeprazole Magnesium12$1,092
Famotidine55$959

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$20$36,22013 claims
AbbVieLinzess$825$20,99234 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 40th percentile of 610 gastroenterology providers in North Carolina.

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