RxDoctor Payments Data

Muhammad Sheikh, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Memphis, TNNPI 1225317126

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,500in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 157 payments — averaging $28.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pulmonx Corporation$1K
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$816
  • GSK$434
  • AstraZeneca$298
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$289
  • Novartis$162
  • plus $1K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,02423%
  • Food & beverage$3,47577%

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

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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

$4,500 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$151,616
Medicare patients
518
Services billed
1,380

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
Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil38$893,839
OpsumitMacitentan40$478,122
AdempasRiociguat27$365,624
WinrevairSotatercept-Csrk11$288,120
UptraviSelexipag11$270,142
OfevNintedanib Esylate20$242,532
Orenitram ErTreprostinil Diolamine12$180,526
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter45$30,808
Ambrisentan11$22,279
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr29$16,970
Tadalafil17$13,648
EliquisApixaban17$9,574
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate23$9,153
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl15$8,961
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol17$6,309

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
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit, Uptravi$816$748,26451 claims
BayerAdempas$32$365,62427 claims
MerckWinrevair$31$288,12011 claims
Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Stiolto Respimat$103$251,49335 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$434$54,08791 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$298$9,15323 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 50th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.

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