Marc Saad
Nephrology · Atlanta, GANPI 1154676377
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 184 payments — averaging $22.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$975
- AstraZeneca$637
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$376
- Bayer$257
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$243
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$232
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,82091%
- Education$3959%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 40 | $975 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 37 | $637 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 16 | $376 |
| Bayer | 9 | $257 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 4 | $243 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $232 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $223 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 13 | $211 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $104 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $90 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $57 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $54 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Mozarc Medical US LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 388 nephrology providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex | 12 | $15,007 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 30 | $1,111 |
| Calcitriol | 32 | $579 |
| Calcium Acetate | 12 | $562 |
| Metolazone | 11 | $488 |
| Furosemide | 73 | $475 |
| Losartan Potassium | 49 | $318 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 18 | $249 |
| Allopurinol | 27 | $223 |
| Lisinopril | 24 | $144 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 20 | $142 |
| Spironolactone | 21 | $91 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 18 | $87 |
| Hydrochlorothiazide | 21 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nephrology in Atlanta
- Frederic Rahbari OskouiAtlanta$1.5M
- Stuart HandelsmanAtlanta$711K
- Sheldon ShoreAtlanta$474K
- Elizabeth NguyenAtlanta$465K
- William OneillAtlanta$281K
- Janice LeaAtlanta$241K
- Frita FisherAtlanta$220K
- Haimanot WasseAtlanta$194K
- Christina KleinAtlanta$137K
- Mary MuonekeAtlanta$119K
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.