Has Vinod Thakkar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,118 in general payments to Vinod Thakkar, MD across 102 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Vinod Thakkar, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Vinod Thakkar, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Vinod Thakkar, MD

Gastroenterology · Sebring, FLNPI 1497717185

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,118in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 102 payments — averaging $20.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$958
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$145
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$136
Pfizer$123
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$94
Johnson & Johnson$93
plus $569 from 19 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,09899%
Education$201%

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
AbbVie	53	$958
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$145
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	1	$136
Pfizer	7	$123
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$94
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$93
Vivus LLC	3	$53
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	1	$53
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$51
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$44
Axonics, Inc.	2	$43
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$39
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$33
Exact Sciences	1	$32
Sanofi	1	$29
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	2	$28
Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc.	1	$25
Boston Scientific	1	$24
Gilead	1	$21
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$20
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$14
Medtronic	1	$13
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	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.

REZDIFFRA$136
VOQUEZNA$133

How this compares

$2,118 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$67,850

Medicare patients

327

Services billed

502

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	235	$2,579
Dicyclomine Hcl	115	$1,698
Famotidine	120	$1,696
Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine	36	$1,126
Omeprazole	77	$1,086
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)	23	$946
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	42	$645
Esomeprazole Magnesium	18	$570
Metronidazole	83	$502
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	17	$245
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$239
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg	11	$216
Levothyroxine Sodium	16	$207
Clonazepam	12	$163
Metoclopramide Hcl	19	$151

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Sebring

Jose NietoSebring$573K
Howard SchwartzTavernier$38.8M
Guy NeffSarasota$17.6M
Syed LateefClermont$6.4M
Jeffrey SchneiderCoral Springs$6M
Zaid RanaMiami$5.4M
David NelsonGainesville$5.2M
Alan WeintraubTampa$4.7M
Curtis FreedlandNew Port Richey$4.5M
Paul HellsternCrystal River$4.5M

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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.

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