Michael Bahrami, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Miami, FLNPI 1568470417
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,350 of the $1,850 with a category attached, or 73.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC at 27.0% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,774.
Across 39 payments — averaging $47.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$500
- Medtronic$408
- Boehringer Ingelheim$325
- Biotronik Inc.$144
- Novo Nordisk$99
- Pfizer$94
- plus $280 from 8 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $15,310 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.
- Vertex$148K
- Gilead$72K
- Dr.reddy's Laboratories,inc.$9K
- Bayer$942
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$50027%
- Food & beverage$1,35073%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $408 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $325 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $99 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $94 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $57 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $26 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- MULTAQ$500
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$121
- MyCareLink$103
How this compares
$1,850 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 66 | $59,460 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 19 | $17,190 |
| EliquisApixaban | 23 | $13,137 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 14 | $8,934 |
| Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 27 | $922 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 41 | $640 |
| Carvedilol | 45 | $616 |
| Simvastatin | 21 | $582 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 31 | $481 |
| Lisinopril | 39 | $448 |
| Finasteride | 17 | $441 |
| Omeprazole | 16 | $400 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 19 | $376 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 25 | $253 |
| Ibuprofen | 20 | $252 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $325 | $59,46066 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $99 | $17,19019 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $94 | $13,13723 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 40th percentile of 1,740 cardiovascular disease providers in Florida.
Other cardiovascular disease in Miami
- Theodore FeldmanMiami$637K
- Elliott EliasMiami$497K
- Ian del Conde PozziMiami$243K
- Jonathan FialkowMiami$153K
- Bernard AshbyMiami$115K
- Kevin MakatiLutz$1.6M
- Hiram BezerraTampa$698K
- William OneillNaples$637K
- John Gerald CantoLakeland$588K
- Alan MillerJacksonville$547K
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.