Timothy Popham
Gastroenterology · Louisville, KYNPI 1417931957
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 137 payments — averaging $13.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$556
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$331
- Johnson & Johnson$284
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$224
- UCB, Inc.$138
- Shionogi Inc$57
- plus $287 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,878100%
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.
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 | 42 | $556 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $331 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 25 | $284 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 22 | $224 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $138 |
| Shionogi Inc | 4 | $57 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Gilead | 4 | $53 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $43 |
| Merck | 2 | $36 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $30 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,878 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 207 gastroenterology providers in Kentucky.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 31 | $238 |
| Mupirocin | 24 | $172 |
| Azithromycin | 31 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Louisville
- Gerald DrydenLouisville$3.5M
- Matthew CaveLouisville$916K
- Michael KreaseLouisville$694K
- Thomas AbellLouisville$375K
- Sunana SohiLouisville$220K
- Jeffrey TuvlinLouisville$202K
- Loretta JophlinLouisville$174K
- Stephen McClaveLouisville$124K
- Ashutosh BarveLouisville$118K
- Nanlong LiuLouisville$31K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.