Tara Talwar
Gastroenterology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1962453761
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 157 payments — averaging $14.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$752
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$338
- Pfizer$290
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$128
- Johnson & Johnson$123
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$105
- plus $590 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,327100%
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) | 51 | $752 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 28 | $338 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $290 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $123 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $105 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 6 | $101 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $81 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Gilead | 4 | $70 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 5 | $59 |
| Merck | 4 | $58 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Amgen | 2 | $50 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ZEPOSIA$105
How this compares
$2,327 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 374 gastroenterology providers in Missouri.
Other gastroenterology in Saint Louis
- Parakkal DeepakSaint Louis$2M
- Gregory SayukSaint Louis$1.1M
- Katie SchroederSaint Louis$920K
- Kevin KorenblatSaint Louis$857K
- Brent Neuschwander-TetriSaint Louis$729K
- David AlpersSaint Louis$616K
- Chandra GyawaliSaint Louis$593K
- Richard RoodSaint Louis$567K
- Matthew CiorbaSaint Louis$551K
- Bruce BaconSaint Louis$307K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.