Has Stephen Paul, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,637 in general payments to Stephen Paul, MD across 1,070 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephen Paul, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephen Paul, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephen Paul, MD

Gastroenterology · Valparaiso, INNPI 1821060286

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,637in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,070 payments — averaging $16.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$4K
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$1K
Bristol Myers Squibb$531
plus $6K from 33 others

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)	248	$3,929
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	234	$2,488
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	138	$1,945
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	101	$1,844
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	49	$1,085
Bristol Myers Squibb	35	$531
Ardelyx, Inc.	22	$510
Sanofi	16	$507
Pfizer	33	$488
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	15	$469
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	17	$321
QOL Medical, LLC	18	$320
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$315
Vivus LLC	18	$315
Gilead	17	$302
Merck	15	$253
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$248
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	12	$180
Lilly USA, LLC	7	$170
Neuraxis, Inc.	1	$167
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	8	$160
Amgen	4	$127
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	5	$113
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	5	$109
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$100
Medtronic	3	$83
Organon	4	$78
UCB, Inc.	3	$76
Shionogi Inc	3	$65
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$58
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	3	$57
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$56
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$49
Evoke Pharma, Inc.	2	$36
Sirtex Medical Inc	1	$27
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Echosens North America, Inc.	1	$16
Cook Medical LLC	1	$13
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$13

How this compares

$17,637 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$212,038

Medicare patients

969

Services billed

1,818

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.

Other gastroenterology in Valparaiso

Monika FischerIndianapolis$2.8M
Douglas RexIndianapolis$2.3M
Pankaj PatelSouth Bend$2.3M
David PoundIndianapolis$1.4M
Naga ChalasaniIndianapolis$1.1M
Sashidhar SagiWestfield$1.1M
Jonathan ObertNew Albany$758K
David DresnerNew Albany$544K
Marwan GhabrilIndianapolis$464K
Matthew BohmWestfield$437K

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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.

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