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Farah Al Khitan, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Gadsden, ALNPI 1386809176

Payments from drug & device makers

$102,461in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 215 payments — averaging $476.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$91K
  • Philips North America LLC$3K
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$2K
  • Endologix LLC$2K
  • Medtronic$1K
  • Stryker$464
  • plus $3K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,04426%
  • Food & beverage$8,63573%
  • Education$1001%

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

$102,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 109 interventional cardiology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,636,230
Medicare patients
901
Services billed
4,458

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
XareltoRivaroxaban40$36,993
EliquisApixaban49$35,313
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan18$14,619
Prasugrel Hcl13$1,232
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate104$720
Atorvastatin Calcium33$341
Losartan Potassium30$309
Rosuvastatin Calcium24$254
Amlodipine Besylate34$241
Metoprolol Succinate19$183
Carvedilol31$163
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate28$127
Lisinopril17$45

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$253$36,99340 claims
PfizerEliquis$103$35,31349 claims
NovartisEntresto$58$14,61918 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 85th percentile of 109 interventional cardiology providers in Alabama.

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