RxDoctor Payments Data

Shahab Mehdizadeh, MD

Gastroenterology · Beverly Hills, CANPI 1790715241

Payments from drug & device makers

$162,949in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 308 payments — averaging $529.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$160K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
  • QOL Medical, LLC$273
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$209
  • Johnson & Johnson$192
  • Redhill Biopharma Inc.$138
  • plus $752 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$18,00011%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$128,77579%
  • Travel & lodging$10,0546%
  • Food & beverage$6,1144%
  • Education$70%

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

$162,949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$618,812
Medicare patients
772
Services billed
6,266

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase118$258,988
LinzessLinaclotide160$114,102
Humira PenAdalimumab14$93,617
XifaxanRifaximin37$78,980
MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate34$19,158
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates188$11,398
Mesalamine29$7,071
VoqueznaVonoprazan Fumarate12$7,019
Pantoprazole Sodium256$4,987
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole19$4,946
Balsalazide Disodium15$1,786
Omeprazole136$1,180
Famotidine105$580
Rabeprazole Sodium11$500
Clarithromycin12$314

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$160,025$373,090278 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$1,361$78,98037 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 1,885 gastroenterology providers in California.

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