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.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 7 | $1,153 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 6 | $1,152 |
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 1 | $534 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $458 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $248 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $159 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Gilead | 6 | $143 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $123 |
| Amgen | 1 | $115 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 4 | $98 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$1,015
- DISPOSABLE DISTAL ATTACHMENT$1,015
- Olympus$1,015
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$932
- Cook Medical Hemostasis$534
- OCALIVA$248
- TERLIVAZ$145
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$144
- Repatha$115
- Livdelzi$112
- Mavyret$109
- AXIOS$104
How this compares
$4,422 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 28 transplant hepatology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XifaxanRifaximin | 89 | $285,787 |
| VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide | 20 | $39,541 |
| Ursodiol | 64 | $8,705 |
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $7,353 |
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 12 | $6,348 |
| Entecavir | 34 | $4,463 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 43 | $2,988 |
| Lactulose | 28 | $1,098 |
| Nadolol | 18 | $872 |
| Tacrolimus | 16 | $832 |
| Spironolactone | 80 | $814 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 33 | $324 |
| Furosemide | 93 | $269 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 13 | $244 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part 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.
Other transplant hepatology in San Antonio
- Carmen LandaverdeSan Antonio$189K
- Madhavi RudrarajuSan Antonio$41K
- Omer JunaidiSan Antonio$1K
- Hakan AkinSan Antonio$235
- Erin SpenglerSan Antonio$76
- Abdullah MubarakTyler$362K
- Stevan GonzalezFort Worth$282K
- Fernando MembrenoMcAllen$258K
- David VictorHouston$249K
- Prasun JalalHouston$247K
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.