RxDoctor Payments Data

Kassem Bourgi, MD

Infectious Disease · Nashville, TNNPI 1780948299

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 56.3% of the total. Among infectious disease clinicians in TN 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.

$34,055in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $263.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$19K
  • Merck$6K
  • Theratechnologies Inc.$6K
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$2K
  • AbbVie$33
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$21
$416,838in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $11,579 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.

  • Gilead$391K
  • Theratechnologies Inc.$26K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$19,73058%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,50010%
  • Travel & lodging$6,49219%
  • Food & beverage$4,04912%
  • Education$320%
  • Gifts$2521%

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

$34,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 156 infectious disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$31,257
Medicare patients
133
Services billed
296

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala18$84,377

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
GileadBiktarvy$19,172$84,37718 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 95th percentile of 156 infectious disease providers in Tennessee.

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