Muhammad Farooq, MD
Hospitalist · Hartford, CTNPI 1740630417
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,147 of the $5,215 with a category attached, or 60.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,099 and has fallen 91.7% since, to $257 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in CT 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.
Across 73 payments — averaging $71.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$692
- AbbVie$410
- Cook Medical LLC$374
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$105
- Johnson & Johnson$73
- plus $312 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,14760%
- Food & beverage$2,06840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 24 | $3,250 |
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 3 | $692 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $410 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $374 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 4 | $73 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Merck | 3 | $47 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 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.
- AXIOS$1,632
- Instinct$1,015
- EXALT Model D$746
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$133
How this compares
$5,215 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 349 hospitalist providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 12 | $215 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Hartford
- Roy KellermanHartford$5K
- Joseph FuscoHartford$4K
- Edgar NautHartford$4K
- Gagan SinghHartford$4K
- Gagandeep SinghHartford$4K
- Vanessa PauigHartford$3K
- Syed AliHartford$2K
- Anuradha KapurHartford$2K
- John OsowskiHartford$2K
- Praveen JosephHartford$2K
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.