RxDoctor Payments Data

Saleh Elwir, MD

Gastroenterology · Dallas, TXNPI 1508178328

Payments from drug & device makers

$20,153in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 192 payments — averaging $104.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$16K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Gilead$647
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$554
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$342
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$303
  • plus $434 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$160%
  • Food & beverage$4,020100%

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

$20,153 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$66,161
Medicare patients
254
Services billed
699

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
XifaxanRifaximin34$119,204
OcalivaObeticholic Acid12$113,675
Sirolimus56$29,171
Ursodiol114$26,778
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide13$19,037
Mycophenolate Mofetil75$11,319
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium44$9,197
Tacrolimus83$8,872
Azathioprine46$2,112
Entecavir19$1,405
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified13$1,363
Lactulose28$1,175
Spironolactone66$1,031
Midodrine Hcl11$470
Omeprazole30$277

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$554$119,20434 claims
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva$16,443$113,67512 claims
GileadVemlidy$647$19,03713 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 80th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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