RxDoctor Payments Data

Souheil Abou Assi, MD

Gastroenterology · Richmond, VANPI 1023004710

Payments from drug & device makers

$18,418in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 611 payments — averaging $30.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$8K
  • AbbVie$3K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$908
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$820
  • QOL Medical, LLC$750
  • plus $3K from 31 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,99699%
  • Education$721%

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

$18,418 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$135,617
Medicare patients
650
Services billed
909

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
StelaraUstekinumab22$646,205
Mesalamine44$41,730
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase13$36,237
LinzessLinaclotide16$18,799
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole31$13,340
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates114$7,410
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac17$2,909
Mesalamine ErMesalamine28$2,749
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl168$2,466
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf15$2,433
Pantoprazole Sodium252$2,371
Famotidine165$1,803
Dicyclomine Hcl106$1,799
Omeprazole122$1,386
Budesonide DrBudesonide13$1,236

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$908$646,20522 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$3,314$55,03729 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$94$2,90917 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$82$2,43315 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 80th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

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