RxDoctor Payments Data

Saeid Goshtasbi, MD

Gastroenterology · Long Beach, CANPI 1518144344

Payments from drug & device makers

$52,153in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 717 payments — averaging $72.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$19K
  • Bausch Health US, LLC$17K
  • AbbVie$4K
  • Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • plus $8K from 41 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$15,42198%
  • Education$3032%

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

$52,153 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$169,640
Medicare patients
694
Services billed
1,099

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
StelaraUstekinumab12$329,818
OcalivaObeticholic Acid12$112,534
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide33$43,158
Ursodiol115$23,605
LinzessLinaclotide20$11,705
Entecavir26$6,533
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates74$4,636
Pantoprazole Sodium101$1,665
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate17$1,047
Lubiprostone13$1,036
EnuloseLactulose15$514
Lansoprazole24$377
Spironolactone30$368
FenofibrateFenofibrate Nanocrystallized12$303
Omeprazole25$239

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
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$1,534$329,81812 claims
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva$285$112,53412 claims
GileadVemlidy$19,216$43,15833 claims
AbbVieLinzess$3,547$11,70520 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 85th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

Other gastroenterology in Long Beach

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