RxDoctor Payments Data

Tehilla Apfel, MD

Gastroenterology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1396163341

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,966in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $16.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$888
  • Johnson & Johnson$403
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$361
  • Gilead$193
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$164
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$151
  • plus $807 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,88597%
  • Education$672%
  • Gifts$140%

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

$2,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$125,981
Medicare patients
420
Services billed
1,067

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
StelaraUstekinumab12$327,658
LinzessLinaclotide83$72,439
XifaxanRifaximin22$66,998
Budesonide ErBudesonide17$26,115
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase13$23,994
IbsrelaTenapanor Hcl11$22,099
Mesalamine43$15,385
Sucralfate77$8,868
Colestipol Hcl57$4,833
Omeprazole226$4,490
Pantoprazole Sodium235$4,214
Dicyclomine Hcl67$2,058
Lansoprazole12$1,729
Famotidine15$1,068
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron21$314

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$403$327,65812 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$888$96,43496 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$361$66,99822 claims
Ardelyx, Inc.Ibsrela$164$22,09911 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 50th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.

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