RxDoctor Payments Data

Faisal Zahiruddin, DO

Pulmonary Disease · Houston, TXNPI 1467743716

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,705in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 208 payments — averaging $22.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$568
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$562
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$554
  • Baxter Healthcare$490
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$443
  • AstraZeneca$266
  • plus $2K from 28 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,705100%

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.

How this compares

$4,705 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$166,322
Medicare patients
581
Services billed
1,597

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter29$24,803
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol26$16,020
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate23$8,212
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide12$6,054
Atrovent HfaIpratropium Bromide11$4,954
BreynaBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$4,298
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide11$3,829
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$2,177
Glycopyrrolate58$1,835
Ipratropium Bromide51$1,313
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol15$777
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate28$761
Pantoprazole Sodium17$227
Azithromycin11$220
Levofloxacin18$121

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$568$44,65266 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$266$8,21223 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 55th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.

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