RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Lewis, MD

Gastroenterology · Nashville, TNNPI 1760478192

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,794in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 559 payments — averaging $15.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$4K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$745
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$701
  • Johnson & Johnson$660
  • Gilead$428
  • Sanofi$382
  • plus $2K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,766100%
  • Education$270%

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

$8,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$110,889
Medicare patients
504
Services billed
925

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
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase31$97,583
Dupixent PenDupilumab13$97,181
LinzessLinaclotide70$47,515
Chlordiazepoxide-ClidiniumChlordiazepoxide/Clidinium Br11$21,536
Budesonide DrBudesonide61$18,797
TrulancePlecanatide14$11,205
MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate15$10,523
Pantoprazole Sodium343$5,339
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole24$5,247
Sucralfate92$4,543
Mesalamine17$4,386
Famotidine190$3,429
Ursodiol25$3,126
Esomeprazole Magnesium58$2,254
Dicyclomine Hcl75$1,977

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$3,951$145,098101 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance$701$11,20514 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Motegrity$745$10,52315 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 70th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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