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Kamran Safdar, MD

Transplant Hepatology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1538239439

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Apollo Endosurgery US Inc at 26.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,508 and has fallen 67.1% since, to $496 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for transplant hepatology clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $5,913.

$4,422in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $92.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$1K
  • Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$1K
  • Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$534
  • Boston Scientific$458
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$248
  • AbbVie$159
  • plus $719 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,56058%
  • Food & beverage$1,86342%

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

$4,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 28 transplant hepatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$47,791
Medicare patients
205
Services billed
384

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
XifaxanRifaximin89$285,787
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide20$39,541
Ursodiol64$8,705
EliquisApixaban11$7,353
Valganciclovir Hcl12$6,348
Entecavir34$4,463
Mycophenolate Mofetil43$2,988
Lactulose28$1,098
Nadolol18$872
Tacrolimus16$832
Spironolactone80$814
Pantoprazole Sodium33$324
Furosemide93$269
Dicyclomine Hcl13$244
Gabapentin16$214

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$24$285,78789 claims
GileadVemlidy$143$39,54120 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 45th percentile of 28 transplant hepatology providers in Texas.

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