Sohail Choudhri, MD
Gastroenterology · Waycross, GANPI 1407960289
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 390 payments — averaging $17.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$718
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$620
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$481
- Sanofi$324
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$321
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,79197%
- Education$1863%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 171 | $2,905 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 38 | $718 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 36 | $620 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 30 | $481 |
| Sanofi | 9 | $324 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 19 | $321 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $248 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 10 | $206 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 8 | $146 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $141 |
| Gilead | 5 | $130 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 5 | $124 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $103 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $70 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $65 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $54 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $21 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $17 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$6,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 26 | $176,175 |
| OcalivaObeticholic Acid | 12 | $122,092 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 12 | $89,293 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 55 | $36,235 |
| SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf | 107 | $17,536 |
| ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac | 102 | $17,268 |
| PlenvuPeg3350/Sod Sul/Nacl/Kcl/Asb/C | 41 | $5,851 |
| SuflavePeg 3350/Sod Sulf,chlr/Pot/Mag | 40 | $4,945 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 472 | $4,872 |
| Ursodiol | 14 | $3,975 |
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 17 | $2,599 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 13 | $2,311 |
| Omeprazole | 194 | $2,225 |
| Lansoprazole | 49 | $1,576 |
| Lubiprostone | 14 | $1,378 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Ocaliva | $107 | $122,09212 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $2,905 | $36,23555 claims |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab, Suflave | $146 | $22,481147 claims |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq | $70 | $17,268102 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCPlenvu | $620 | $5,85141 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 65th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.
Other gastroenterology in Waycross
- Douglas WolfAtlanta$6.4M
- Aasim SheikhMarietta$6M
- Shahriar SedghiMacon$5.4M
- Jeffrey WilliamsAthens$2.5M
- Michael GalambosAtlanta$1.8M
- Nitin GuptaAtlanta$1.7M
- Bruce SalzbergSuwanee$1.4M
- Heba IskandarAtlanta$978K
- David RausherDecatur$907K
- Florence Hosseini AsliniaHiram$885K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.