RxDoctor Payments Data

Sezen Altug, MD

Gastroenterology · Webster, TXNPI 1710998463

Payments from drug & device makers

$201,681in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 720 payments — averaging $280.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$188K
  • AbbVie$3K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$3K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$703
  • plus $5K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13,858100%
  • Education$560%

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

$201,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$173,740
Medicare patients
437
Services billed
5,591

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
LinzessLinaclotide96$85,425
RemicadeInfliximab13$73,555
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase15$32,087
Alosetron Hcl30$20,192
Mesalamine23$11,521
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac49$8,261
Famotidine539$7,526
Mesalamine ErMesalamine25$5,620
Sucralfate33$5,471
Omeprazole429$4,902
PlenvuPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C26$3,436
Pantoprazole Sodium179$2,510
Dicyclomine Hcl99$2,228
Esomeprazole Magnesium39$1,961
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)15$1,076

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
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$2,829$117,513111 claims
Johnson & JohnsonRemicade$1,223$73,55513 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$327$8,26149 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCPlenvu$1,210$3,43626 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 90th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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