Haitem Mezughi, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Pikeville, KYNPI 1447649157
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 24 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $370 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $37 in 2025.
Across 24 payments — averaging $21.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$67
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$59
- Intuitive Surgical$56
- Sanofi$50
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$46
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$35
- plus $190 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$504100%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 4 | $67 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $56 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $50 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $34 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $25 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 60 critical care medicine providers in Kentucky.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 25 | $7,769 |
| Roflumilast | 13 | $386 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 16 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other critical care medicine in Pikeville
- Anthony DempseyPikeville$7K
- Abdel Rahman LataifehPikeville$121
- Worawute SupaongprapaPikeville$99
- Matthew SextonPikeville$89
- Rachel MullinsPikeville$66
- Daniel GavinPikeville$46
- Annette RebelPikeville$18
- Jimmy SmithLexington$142K
- Jason BowmanLexington$10K
- Traci Sanchez VanhooseAshland$6K
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.