RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Altschuler, MD

Gastroenterology · Port St Lucie, FLNPI 1346453610

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,495in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $21.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$407
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$358
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$264
  • Intuitive Surgical$232
  • Evoke Pharma, Inc.$224
  • AbbVie$167
  • plus $843 from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,47399%
  • Education$221%

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

$2,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$178,725
Medicare patients
644
Services billed
1,184

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
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase34$170,092
LinzessLinaclotide27$32,381
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate24$15,396
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac76$12,801
Mesalamine31$9,426
PlenvuPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C23$3,319
Omeprazole240$2,952
Pantoprazole Sodium256$2,743
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf14$2,277
Lactulose68$2,223
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl105$1,694
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)22$1,329
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates21$1,236
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron47$1,095
Esomeprazole Magnesium12$924

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
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$99$170,09234 claims
AbbVieLinzess$167$32,38127 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$42$15,39624 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCPlenvu$264$3,31923 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$86$2,27714 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 40th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.

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