RxDoctor Payments Data

Walter Immel, MD

Gastroenterology · Springfield, VANPI 1104826429

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,908in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 308 payments — averaging $19.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Gilead$791
  • Pfizer$481
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$417
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$341
  • Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$322
  • plus $2K from 30 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,74197%
  • Gifts$1673%

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.

How this compares

$5,908 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$259,580
Medicare patients
562
Services billed
868

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
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase17$112,152
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase21$83,849
LinzessLinaclotide42$62,682
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac122$20,705
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole15$5,031
Esomeprazole Magnesium115$4,417
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf20$3,217
Pantoprazole Sodium113$1,963
Omeprazole55$1,188
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron11$226
Famotidine14$216

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$1,927$146,53163 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$34$112,15217 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$341$20,705122 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$322$3,21720 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 55th percentile of 473 gastroenterology providers in Virginia.

Other gastroenterology in Springfield

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