Sujan Ravi
Gastroenterology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1649584350
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.3%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 38.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,901, more than ten times the $419 reported in 2019.
Across 33 payments — averaging $176.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$653
- Gilead$334
- Boehringer Ingelheim$125
- Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$124
- plus $329 from 5 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $4871.56 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$132K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,75047%
- Travel & lodging$1,64328%
- Food & beverage$1,31623%
- Education$1002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $2,241 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 6 | $2,003 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $653 |
| Gilead | 6 | $334 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $122 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $59 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XifaxanRifaximin | 28 | $86,173 |
| VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide | 11 | $17,218 |
| Ursodiol | 57 | $14,084 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 11 | $10,335 |
| Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium | 13 | $7,222 |
| Tacrolimus | 83 | $5,700 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 66 | $5,226 |
| EliquisApixaban | 13 | $4,021 |
| Azathioprine | 19 | $904 |
| Spironolactone | 37 | $872 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 19 | $571 |
| Lactulose | 13 | $444 |
| Carvedilol | 57 | $407 |
| Prednisone | 34 | $322 |
| Furosemide | 38 | $152 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan | $653 | $86,17328 claims |
| GileadVemlidy | $334 | $17,21811 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 225 gastroenterology providers in Alabama.
Other gastroenterology in Birmingham
- Robert ShafferBirmingham$1M
- Mukul MehraBirmingham$193K
- Meagan GrayBirmingham$113K
- David SteeleBirmingham$47K
- Kirk RussBirmingham$38K
- Kenneth SigmanBirmingham$34K
- Shajan PeterBirmingham$31K
- Ali AhmedBirmingham$27K
- Swaroop VittaBirmingham$15K
- Rajat ParikhBirmingham$14K
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.