RxDoctor Payments Data

Bilal Safadi, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Merrillville, INNPI 1457512816

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,480 and has fallen 74.0% since, to $1,683 in 2025.

$13,328in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 396 payments — averaging $33.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$5K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • GSK$1K
  • AstraZeneca$912
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$805
  • Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$398
  • plus $4K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,01023%
  • Food & beverage$6,93652%
  • Education$3,38225%

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

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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

$13,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 258 pulmonary disease providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$284,991
Medicare patients
873
Services billed
2,655

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
ActharCorticotropin11$972,494
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter323$257,259
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr127$72,770
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol62$51,197
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol75$43,788
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl45$33,685
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide31$24,417
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide37$16,711
Pirfenidone11$13,088
Modafinil26$9,586
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate13$6,258
Roflumilast58$5,518
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate11$5,070
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol39$4,608
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate222$4,346

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.Acthar$805$972,49411 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta$1,109$395,597573 claims
Boehringer IngelheimStiolto Respimat, Spiriva Respimat, Combivent Respimat$367$64,36089 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$912$54,50276 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 80th percentile of 258 pulmonary disease providers in Indiana.

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