Has Ghadir Salame, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $179,187 in general payments to Ghadir Salame, MD across 161 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 Ghadir Salame, 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 Ghadir Salame, 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.

Ghadir Salame, MD

Gynecologic Oncology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1144517921

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $164,000 of the $179,187 with a category attached, or 91.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 98.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $63,181 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $9,696 in 2025. Among gynecologic oncology clinicians in NY 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.

$179,187in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 161 payments — averaging $1112.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$177K
Virtual Incision Corporation$1K
GSK$171
Dilon Technologies, Inc.$158
Merck$145
Johnson & Johnson$80
plus $167 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,1982%
Food & beverage$10,9656%
Education$164,00092%
Gifts$240%

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
Intuitive Surgical	128	$177,202
Virtual Incision Corporation	9	$1,264
GSK	10	$171
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	1	$158
Merck	2	$145
Johnson & Johnson	3	$80
Teleflex LLC	2	$45
Eisai Inc.	2	$43
Clovis Oncology, Inc.	2	$41
Genmab U.S., Inc.	1	$22
Sagent Pharmaceuticals	1	$16

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

$179,187 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 154 gynecologic oncology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$41,847

Medicare patients

Services billed

134

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 gynecologic oncology in Brooklyn

Margaux KanisBrooklyn$21K
Jennifer McEachronBrooklyn$4K
Katherine EconomosBrooklyn$3K
Albert PalileoBrooklyn$3K
Constantine GorelickBrooklyn$2K
Heidi GodoyAlbany$1.1M
Bhavana PothuriNew York$366K
Joyce BarlinAlbany$208K
Wiley BunnSyracuse$201K
Richard MooreRochester$124K

See the full list for New York →

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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