RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Towne, MD

Gastroenterology · Germantown, TNNPI 1700888385

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,680in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 481 payments — averaging $22.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
  • Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$2K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$758
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$576
  • Johnson & Johnson$553
  • plus $3K from 28 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,56215%
  • Food & beverage$9,04085%
  • Education$781%

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.

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

$10,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$347,282
Medicare patients
692
Services billed
12,652

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
StelaraUstekinumab15$419,663
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab14$94,978
LinzessLinaclotide18$13,556
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac79$12,996
Mesalamine34$9,054
Budesonide DrBudesonide62$7,344
Ursodiol26$6,783
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates77$5,111
Colestipol Hcl64$4,418
Pantoprazole Sodium392$4,304
Mesalamine ErMesalamine13$2,446
Budesonide EcBudesonide11$2,094
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)13$1,037
Dicyclomine Hcl58$1,036
Esomeprazole Magnesium29$832

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$553$419,66315 claims
AbbVieLinzess$2,058$13,55618 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$292$12,99679 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 75th percentile of 336 gastroenterology providers in Tennessee.

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