Has Bulent Zaim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,451 in general payments to Bulent Zaim, MD across 92 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Bulent Zaim, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Bulent Zaim, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Bulent Zaim, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Annapolis, MDNPI 1518902212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $19,500 of the $23,451 with a category attached, or 83.2%. ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) accounts for 85.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,260 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $224 in 2025.

$23,451in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 92 payments — averaging $254.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$20K
Abbott$3K
Boston Scientific$234
Medtronic$224
Astellas Pharma US Inc$15
Philips North America LLC$12

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$19,50083%
Food & beverage$3,95117%

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
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	24	$20,067
Abbott	60	$2,899
Boston Scientific	4	$234
Medtronic	2	$224
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$15
Philips North America LLC	1	$12

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

$23,451 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 63 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$308,486

Medicare patients

886

Services billed

3,059

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
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	70	$61,879
EliquisApixaban	66	$60,224
XareltoRivaroxaban	51	$56,537
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	22	$13,219
BrilintaTicagrelor	11	$7,160
Midodrine Hcl	36	$3,283
Metoprolol Succinate	85	$1,245
Carvedilol	56	$624
Atorvastatin Calcium	47	$598
Amiodarone Hcl	40	$577
Metoprolol Tartrate	58	$553
Ezetimibe	11	$429
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	19	$386
Losartan Potassium	28	$318
Clonidine Hcl	13	$293

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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