Medical Doctor Program year 2021 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Getachew Mekasha

Gastroenterology Washington, DC Medical Doctor

NPI 1912928243 CMS profile 1243285

2139 Georgia Nwave 3A, Suite 3A, Washington, DC 20001

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General payments

$21

1 record reported · program year 2021

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program year 2021

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2021, Getachew Mekasha of Washington, DC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $21 across 1 general payment and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 2nd percentile of Gastroenterology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

1 row
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2021 General $21 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Getachew Mekasha
  • Gastroenterology median
  • Middle half of Gastroenterology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Getachew Mekasha were reported at $0. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.

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Year Getachew Mekasha Gastroenterology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $417 $126–$1,100 $163
2020 $0 $224 $74–$624 $114
2021 $21 $352 $106–$1,054 $132
2022 $0 $448 $129–$1,270 $149
2023 $0 $533 $150–$1,390 $160
2024 $0 $605 $160–$1,606 $164
2025 $0 $639 $167–$1,700 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program year 2021
  1. RedHill Biopharma Inc. $21 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program year 2021
  1. Food and Beverage $21 1 payment
Products named General payments · program year 2021
  1. Talicia $21 1 payment

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

408

Median for Gastroenterology: 569

Drug cost

$6,832

Median for Gastroenterology: $104,976

Branded share of claims

36%

Median for Gastroenterology: 31.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Tetracycline Hcl Generic 11 $1,157
Famotidine Generic 77 $1,095
Gavilyte-G Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 63 $913
Lactulose Generic 64 $902
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag Sulf Sodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates Brand 12 $763
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 87 $543
Peg-3350 And Electrolytes Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 33 $524
Gavilyte-C Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 27 $370
Peg 3350-Electrolyte Sodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg Brand 12 $234
Omeprazole Generic 11 $203

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 14,294 Part D prescribers listed as Gastroenterology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 9 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$27,401

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

103

Average age 70

Services billed

269

58 women, 45 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Diabetes 44%
Arthritis 36%
Ischemic heart disease 17%
Chronic kidney disease 17%
Depression 14%
Cancer 11%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

1 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2021

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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