Has Richard Huang, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,731 in general payments to Richard Huang, MD across 369 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Huang, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Huang, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Huang, MD

Gastroenterology · Victorville, CANPI 1124247861

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,731in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 369 payments — averaging $23.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
Gilead$2K
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$799
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$617
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$479
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$462
plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$8,712100%
Education$190%

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)	154	$2,886
Gilead	43	$1,525
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	38	$799
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	9	$617
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	20	$479
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	10	$462
Pfizer	17	$298
Merck	16	$234
Ardelyx, Inc.	9	$210
Johnson & Johnson	12	$197
Medtronic	3	$165
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$143
Sanofi	7	$129
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$125
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$108
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	6	$96
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$79
Vivus LLC	3	$58
Cook Medical LLC	2	$40
Novo Nordisk	2	$33
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$27
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$11
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	1	$10

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

$8,731 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$143,412

Medicare patients

572

Services billed

1,113

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
Humira PenAdalimumab	14	$97,079
Mesalamine	19	$14,608
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	84	$4,665
Ursodiol	32	$4,150
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)	32	$3,575
Lactulose	27	$1,224
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate	14	$853
Pantoprazole Sodium	75	$496
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	27	$391
Sulfasalazine	14	$304
Omeprazole	42	$280
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	18	$258
Dicyclomine Hcl	14	$227

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Victorville

Peter WinkleCypress$116.7M
Manuchehr DaraniSanta Ana$17.7M
Jatinder PruthiLancaster$4.4M
Long DangWestminster$4.3M
Muhammad SheikhFresno$4.3M
Gregory WienerChula Vista$3.5M
Gil MelmedLos Angeles$3M
Christopher BowlusSacramento$3M
Bennett RothLos Angeles$2.8M
Brigid BolandSan Diego$2.4M

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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.

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