Has Faisal Merchant, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,125 in general payments to Faisal Merchant, MD across 74 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 Faisal Merchant, 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 Faisal Merchant, 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.

Faisal Merchant, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Atlanta, GANPI 1336130699

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (34.9%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 73.9% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,043, more than ten times the $622 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $21,716.

$12,125in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $163.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$9K
Boston Scientific$2K
Medtronic$698
ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$277
Biosense Webster, Inc.$73

$202,621in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $4221.26 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.

Boston Scientific$175K
Medtronic$28K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$4,02533%
Travel & lodging$4,23535%
Food & beverage$3,86532%

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
Abbott	46	$8,965
Boston Scientific	17	$2,112
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$698
ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.	1	$277
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$73

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

$12,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 93 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$220,438

Medicare patients

1,267

Services billed

2,674

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
EliquisApixaban	199	$212,711
XareltoRivaroxaban	80	$96,256
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	17	$21,842
SotalolSotalol Hcl	212	$3,830
Flecainide Acetate	73	$3,673
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl	14	$2,079
Dofetilide	19	$2,038
Metoprolol Succinate	120	$1,558
Amiodarone Hcl	48	$870
Nadolol	16	$668
Hydralazine Hcl	16	$457
Rosuvastatin Calcium	12	$327
Atorvastatin Calcium	36	$296
Carvedilol	36	$286
Spironolactone	26	$238

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Atlanta

David DelurgioAtlanta$695K
Thomas DeeringAtlanta$237K
Michael LloydAtlanta$221K
Mikhael El-ChamiAtlanta$172K
Sandeep GoyalAtlanta$153K
Bruce StamblerAtlanta$91K
Stacy WestermanAtlanta$60K
Ashish BhimaniAtlanta$51K
Aaron RichardsonAtlanta$51K
Devinder DhindsaAtlanta$47K

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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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