Ahmad Goodarzi, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1992012173
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 249 payments — averaging $44.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd$2K
- Insmed, Inc.$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$642
- Johnson & Johnson$606
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$582
- plus $3K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5856%
- Food & beverage$5,53759%
- Education$3,27835%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $3,000 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Ltd | 4 | $1,650 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 53 | $1,102 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 24 | $642 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $606 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 21 | $582 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 17 | $484 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 24 | $452 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 14 | $349 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $261 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 10 | $255 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $179 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 6 | $168 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $144 |
| GSK | 6 | $144 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $113 |
| Shionogi Inc | 5 | $112 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $100 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 3 | $98 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $95 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 7 | $93 |
| Merck | 4 | $67 |
| Sandoz | 4 | $59 |
| Bayer | 2 | $57 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $53 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $44 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ION$3,000
- Monarch Platform$585
- SherpaPak$261
- LIVERguard$261
- LUNGguard$261
- BaroGuard$261
- PancreasPak$261
How this compares
$11,050 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 36 | $471,255 |
| Gamunex-CImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 33 | $275,878 |
| Gammagard LiquidImmun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga Ov50 | 24 | $166,566 |
| GammakedImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 46 | 16 | $145,486 |
| PrevymisLetermovir | 16 | $108,867 |
| CresembaIsavuconazonium Sulfate | 14 | $91,579 |
| Atovaquone | 55 | $47,462 |
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 67 | $46,854 |
| EliquisApixaban | 39 | $27,447 |
| Posaconazole | 15 | $20,132 |
| Voriconazole | 26 | $17,287 |
| Envarsus XrTacrolimus | 20 | $11,217 |
| Tacrolimus | 99 | $8,895 |
| Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium | 45 | $8,611 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 34 | $6,194 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev | $642 | $471,25536 claims |
| Grifols USA, LLCGamunex-C | $349 | $275,87833 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Gammagard Liquid | $179 | $166,56624 claims |
| MerckPrevymis | $67 | $108,86716 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncCresemba | $484 | $91,57914 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $144 | $27,44739 claims |
| SandozEnoxaparin Sodium | $59 | $2,49212 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 70th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.
Other pulmonary disease in Houston
- Ivan RosasHouston$13.8M
- Nicola HananiaHouston$2.2M
- Sandeep SahayHouston$2.1M
- Zeenat SafdarHouston$1.7M
- Howard HuangHouston$1.3M
- Dileep PuppalaHouston$1.1M
- Sandeep GuptaHouston$1.1M
- Joseph VaronHouston$1.1M
- Bela PatelHouston$974K
- Roberto CasalHouston$865K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.