Ayaa Zarm, MD
Internal Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1477832012
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 22 payments — averaging $62.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$220
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$195
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$153
- Novo Nordisk$129
- Vifor Pharma, Inc.$119
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$118
- plus $431 from 9 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $220.92 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,35899%
- Education$81%
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.
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
$1,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,528 internal medicine providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide | 17 | $60,632 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 23 | $26,406 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 19 | $23,092 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 23 | $6,305 |
| Torsemide | 44 | $1,607 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 11 | $1,298 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 69 | $1,191 |
| Calcium Acetate | 20 | $890 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 48 | $644 |
| Carvedilol | 88 | $621 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 46 | $577 |
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 27 | $397 |
| Famotidine | 18 | $365 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 47 | $257 |
| Labetalol Hcl | 13 | $245 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in New Orleans
- William SmithNew Orleans$50.5M
- Brian LewisNew Orleans$2M
- Steven DeitelzweigNew Orleans$939K
- Lydia BazzanoNew Orleans$892K
- Eboni Price-HaywoodNew Orleans$659K
- Susan Lewis AbdalianNew Orleans$301K
- Eduardo RodriguezNew Orleans$167K
- Shigeki SaitoNew Orleans$120K
- Jonathan GugelNew Orleans$95K
- Keith WinfreyNew Orleans$93K
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.