Hossein Sadeghi
Pediatric Pulmonology · Stamford, CTNPI 1063423028
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,844 of the $2,746 with a category attached, or 67.1%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 26.8% of the total.
Across 62 payments — averaging $44.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$735
- Coloplast$555
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$288
- Viatris Specialty LLC$175
- AstraZeneca$124
- AbbVie$115
- plus $754 from 17 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $17,932 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.
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$45K
- Vertex$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$68825%
- Food & beverage$1,84467%
- Education$2158%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 5 | $735 |
| Coloplast | 11 | $555 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $288 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $175 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $124 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $115 |
| Vertex | 4 | $98 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $87 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| ICU Medical Inc | 1 | $61 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Novartis | 2 | $38 |
| GSK | 2 | $35 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $27 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $21 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 1 | $17 |
| 3b Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- TITAN$453
- TOBI Podhaler$286
How this compares
Too few pediatric pulmonology providers in Connecticutto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric pulmonology in Stamford
- Craig CanapariNew Haven$12K
- Sohail KayaniTrumbull$5K
- Jacob HenTrumbull$1K
- Rajinder AroraNew Haven$756
- Regina PalazzoBranford$612
- Sabhyata AgrawalNew Haven$173
- Jamie HarrisHartford$125
- Marie EganNew Haven$121
- Mahrukh ShahNew Haven$104
- Corey WynnHartford$100
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.