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Wasif Abidi

Gastroenterology · Houston, TXNPI 1821230780

Payments from drug & device makers

$43,354in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 210 payments — averaging $206.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$23K
  • Ambu Inc.$8K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$3K
  • Pentax Of America, Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • plus $4K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$27,56364%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,50010%
  • Grants$290%
  • Travel & lodging$3,2578%
  • Food & beverage$8,00618%

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

$43,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$80,094
Medicare patients
239
Services billed
626

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/Amylase51$190,556
OzempicSemaglutide14$13,796
Omeprazole62$1,163
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates20$1,135
Rabeprazole Sodium15$752
Pantoprazole Sodium42$646
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron23$518
Famotidine14$285
Dicyclomine Hcl13$152
Metronidazole15$132

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$1,287$190,55651 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$122$13,79614 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 85th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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