Jason Akulian, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Baltimore, MDNPI 1538353958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (52.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. at 27.7% of the total. Among pulmonary disease clinicians in MD 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.
Across 282 payments — averaging $819.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$64K
- Intuitive Surgical$51K
- Olympus America Inc.$37K
- Cook Incorporated$28K
- Pleural Dynamics Inc.$9K
- Boston Scientific$9K
- plus $33K from 15 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $19,523 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.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$70K
- Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.$39K
- Pleural Dynamics Inc.$18K
- BD$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$120,40752%
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,13024%
- Travel & lodging$27,78012%
- Food & beverage$9,4744%
- Education$16,9507%
- Gifts$3250%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 64 | $64,003 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 96 | $51,066 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 44 | $36,672 |
| Cook Incorporated | 9 | $27,835 |
| Pleural Dynamics Inc. | 5 | $9,483 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $9,328 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 11 | $8,494 |
| Elucent Medical | 6 | $6,594 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 9 | $5,411 |
| Olympus Medical Systems Corporation | 4 | $4,867 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $2,819 |
| BD | 1 | $1,600 |
| Olympus Corporation | 5 | $1,106 |
| Gyrus ACMI, Inc. | 2 | $880 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $347 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $150 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $149 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $77 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Spin$62,668
- Da Vinci Surgical System$38,680
- Blue Rhino$14,955
- EVES EUS ULTRASOUND BRONCHOFIBERVIDEOSCOPE$11,812
- SPiN Perc Localization Needle 19ga x 105mm, 1cm marking zone$11,125
- Always-On Tip Tracked Forceps, 1.8mm OD, Serrated Cup$11,000
- Automatic Continuous Effusion Shunt (ACES) System$9,483
- ION$8,500
- Wayne$4,950
- GENERAL PULMONARY$4,900
- CHARTIS CATHETER$4,500
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$4,500
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$4,500
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$4,500
- Cook Medical Ciaglia Blue Rhino$3,740
- ACQUIRE$3,679
- Single-Use flexible Video Bronchoscope$3,520
- Cook Medical Percutaneous Tracheostomy$3,113
- Enhertu$2,819
- DA VINCI SP$2,000
How this compares
$231,067 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 297 pulmonary disease providers in Maryland.
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.
Other pulmonary disease in Baltimore
- Alan SchwartzBaltimore$1.3M
- Hitesh BatraBaltimore$611K
- Lonny YarmusBaltimore$582K
- Robert WiseBaltimore$389K
- Ko Pen WangBaltimore$280K
- Hans LeeBaltimore$277K
- Angela ArgentoBaltimore$269K
- Michael DrummondBaltimore$263K
- Kathryn RobinettBaltimore$160K
- Sonye DanoffBaltimore$129K
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.