Bassam Baroudi, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Gulfport, MSNPI 1487683231
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.1% of the total across 281 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 42 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,339 and has fallen 64.9% since, to $471 in 2025.
Across 281 payments — averaging $24.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik Inc.$892
- Abbott$818
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$628
- Pfizer$446
- Johnson & Johnson$345
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$288
- plus $3K from 36 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6049%
- Food & beverage$6,18190%
- Gifts$751%
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
$6,860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.
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.
Other cardiovascular disease in Gulfport
- Umair MalikGulfport$21K
- Shwan JalalGulfport$10K
- Wakkas TayaraGulfport$10K
- James HardwickGulfport$6K
- Dharmesh PatelSouthaven$1.5M
- Barry BertoletTupelo$469K
- Donny StokesJackson$207K
- Mahmoud ZayedPascagoula$103K
- James BenslerJackson$64K
- Michael HallJackson$54K
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.