RxDoctor Payments Data

Vishal Desai, MD

Gastroenterology · Chicago, ILNPI 1104189661

Payments from drug & device makers

$92,312in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 109 payments — averaging $846.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$66K
  • Covidien LP$24K
  • Stryker$813
  • AbbVie$564
  • Boston Scientific$193
  • Zimmer Biomet$164
  • plus $797 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$45,33049%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$41,23045%
  • Travel & lodging$3,3694%
  • Food & beverage$2,2732%
  • Education$990%
  • Entertainment$100%

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

$92,312 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 787 gastroenterology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$114,393
Medicare patients
354
Services billed
913

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/Amylase17$39,709
LinzessLinaclotide22$34,340
Mesalamine26$22,990
Omeprazole223$2,621
Pantoprazole Sodium89$1,828
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl109$1,573
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates18$1,211
Colestipol Hcl26$1,123
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg45$798
Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl51$794
Famotidine63$592
Dicyclomine Hcl24$336
Sucralfate11$286
Nortriptyline Hcl13$58

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$564$74,05039 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 90th percentile of 787 gastroenterology providers in Illinois.

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