Faheem Shaikh, MD
Hospitalist · Birmingham, ALNPI 1609038561
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,831 of the $3,429 with a category attached, or 82.6%. 3 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 52.5% of the total. Among hospitalist clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 19 payments — averaging $180.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Modernatx, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$37
Across 251 payments — averaging $7314.71 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$983K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$428K
- Seqirus USA Inc$225K
- AstraZeneca$120K
- Pfizer$43K
- Genentech, Inc.$23K
- plus $14K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,83183%
- Food & beverage$59817%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $1,800 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 8 | $1,591 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $37 |
How this compares
$3,429 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 265 hospitalist providers in Alabama.
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 hospitalist in Birmingham
- Aftab KhanBirmingham$5K
- Mark CromerBirmingham$4K
- Matthew BurdenBirmingham$4K
- Sandeep VirkBirmingham$3K
- Laura KukucBirmingham$2K
- Siddharth BansalBirmingham$2K
- Peter HwangBirmingham$1K
- Jorge PinoBirmingham$989
- George TisdaleBirmingham$909
- Brandon BringuelBirmingham$875
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.