Vaibhav Wadhwa, MD
Gastroenterology · Houston, TXNPI 1962817767
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 212 payments — averaging $68.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$7K
- AbbVie$2K
- Conmed Corporation$1K
- Medtronic$609
- Olympus America Inc.$547
- Gilead$511
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,30616%
- Food & beverage$12,03883%
- Education$1991%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 106 | $6,980 |
| AbbVie | 24 | $1,672 |
| Conmed Corporation | 18 | $1,258 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $609 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 5 | $547 |
| Gilead | 9 | $511 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 4 | $483 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $399 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $346 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $250 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 2 | $211 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $167 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $92 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Merck | 1 | $84 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $59 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $50 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $42 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $28 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $24 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $20 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,045
- Creon$655
- SPYGLASS$587
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$456
- CONMED GENERATORS$423
- GENERAL - BILIARY DEVICES$406
- WALLFLEX$388
- Rinvoq$351
- CONMED BILIARY$308
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$289
- ZEPOSIA$250
- LINZESS$250
- Epclusa$250
- CAPTIVATOR COLD$234
- Entyvio$224
- TRUFREEZE$167
- CONMED HEMOSTASIS$150
- GI Genius$149
- Endocuff Vision$149
- DISPOSABLE TRIPLE LUMEN SPHINCTEROTOME$149
How this compares
$14,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 23 | $1,488 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 21 | $275 |
| Omeprazole | 21 | $213 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 11 | $185 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Houston
- Mazen NoureddinHouston$6.1M
- James MaherHouston$5.3M
- Uma MohanHouston$5M
- John VierlingHouston$2.8M
- Bincy AbrahamHouston$2.5M
- Jason HouHouston$2.3M
- Jignesh ShahHouston$1.7M
- Mouhamad Al-SabbaghHouston$1.6M
- Mohamed OthmanHouston$1.6M
- Harry OjeasHouston$1.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.