William Strain
Gastroenterology · Fayetteville, GANPI 1548264112
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 156 payments — averaging $15.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$506
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$259
- Johnson & Johnson$250
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$244
- Boston Scientific$184
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$155
- plus $823 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1004%
- Food & beverage$2,10587%
- Education$2159%
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(2 entities) | 36 | $506 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 17 | $259 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $250 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 26 | $244 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $184 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 13 | $155 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 6 | $142 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $137 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 8 | $106 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $73 |
| Merck | 3 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Tremfya$110
- SIMPONI ARIA$110
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$100
How this compares
$2,420 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 492 gastroenterology providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Fayetteville
- Douglas WolfAtlanta$6.4M
- Aasim SheikhMarietta$6M
- Shahriar SedghiMacon$5.4M
- Jeffrey WilliamsAthens$2.5M
- Michael GalambosAtlanta$1.8M
- Nitin GuptaAtlanta$1.7M
- Bruce SalzbergSuwanee$1.4M
- Heba IskandarAtlanta$978K
- David RausherDecatur$907K
- Florence Hosseini AsliniaHiram$885K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.