RxDoctor Payments Data

Sasha Taleban, MD

Gastroenterology · Tucson, AZNPI 1720197577

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,020 of the $10,816 with a category attached, or 92.6%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 57.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,121 and has fallen 97.8% since, to $136 in 2025.

$10,816in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $721.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$6K
  • Johnson & Johnson$4K
  • Boston Scientific$226
  • Medtronic$120
$733,634in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 204 payments — averaging $3596.24 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.

  • AbbVie$348K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$169K
  • Pfizer$40K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$39K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$38K
  • Genentech, Inc.$38K
  • plus $61K from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$10,02093%
  • Food & beverage$6676%
  • Education$1301%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie8$6,201
Johnson & Johnson2$4,270
Boston Scientific4$226
Medtronic1$120

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

$10,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 355 gastroenterology providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,973
Medicare patients
239
Services billed
400

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
StelaraUstekinumab40$1,070,648
Skyrizi On-BodyRisankizumab-Rzaa15$315,134
EntyvioVedolizumab16$136,488
Mesalamine32$18,484
Hydrocortisone12$3,186
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl101$1,690
Lidocaine16$1,340
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates14$896
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl45$742
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine18$625
Omeprazole42$552
Pantoprazole Sodium31$511
Dicyclomine Hcl22$500
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl21$336
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl16$276

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$4,270$1,070,64840 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 75th percentile of 355 gastroenterology providers in Arizona.

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