RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Kerr, MD

Gastroenterology · Dallas, TXNPI 1295863512

Payments from drug & device makers

$57,265in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $1636.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$41K
  • AstraZeneca$15K
  • Gilead$744
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$550

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,67538%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,00057%
  • Food & beverage$2944%

General payments by program year

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25

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.

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

$57,265 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,641
Medicare patients
225
Services billed
414

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
XifaxanRifaximin12$39,800
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide13$21,750
VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex11$20,547
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate19$17,923
Ursodiol112$9,660
Tacrolimus36$6,527
Valganciclovir Hcl13$3,013
Lactulose45$2,590
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified28$2,363
Mycophenolate Mofetil34$1,767
Pantoprazole Sodium98$1,063
Carvedilol110$1,045
Fluconazole15$1,026
Spironolactone52$615
Entecavir11$608

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$550$39,80012 claims
GileadVemlidy$744$21,75013 claims
AstraZenecaLokelma$14,724$17,92319 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 85th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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