RxDoctor Payments Data

Marwan Abouljoud

Surgery · Detroit, MINPI 1316000896

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $50,000 of the $50,890 with a category attached, or 98.3%. Transmedics, Inc. accounts for 99.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $50,439 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $62 in 2024. Among surgery clinicians in MI 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.

$50,890in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $4240.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Transmedics, Inc.$50K
  • Healthmyne, Inc.$159
  • Biocompatibles, Inc.$105
  • Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$50
  • Shire North American Group Inc$35
  • Histosonics, Inc.$34
  • plus $68 from 3 others
$394,765in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $98,691 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.

  • Transmedics, Inc.$395K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$50,00098%
  • Travel & lodging$4391%
  • Food & beverage$4511%

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

$50,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.

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