Reem Ghalib, MD
Gastroenterology · Arlington, TXNPI 1558337782
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,525 of the $5,335 with a category attached, or 66.1%. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,750, more than ten times the $21 reported in 2019.
Across 25 payments — averaging $213.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$4K
- Merck$1K
- AbbVie$84
- Lilly USA, LLC$61
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$28
- GSK$27
- plus $116 from 5 others
Across 962 payments — averaging $2787.38 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.
- Gilead$580K
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$362K
- Novo Nordisk AS$316K
- Genentech, Inc.$262K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$260K
- AbbVie$200K
- plus $701K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,52566%
- Travel & lodging$1,10221%
- Food & beverage$70813%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $3,669 |
| Merck | 8 | $1,351 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $84 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $61 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| GSK | 1 | $27 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
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.
- REZDIFFRA$3,525
How this compares
$5,335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Propranolol Hcl | 11 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Arlington
- John FordtranDallas$9.9M
- Michael BrownDallas$5.5M
- Bincy AbrahamHouston$1.6M
- Mazen NoureddinHouston$1.5M
- Stephen PappasHouston$1.4M
- Anish PatelFort Sam Houston$1.3M
- Timothy RitterSouthlake$961K
- Parvez MantryDallas$958K
- Nadege GunnWaco$933K
- Brooks CashHouston$867K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.