Has Muhammed Saif, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,868 in general payments to Muhammed Saif, MD across 106 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Muhammed Saif, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Muhammed Saif, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Muhammed Saif, MD

Addiction Medicine · Albany, NYNPI 1396276697

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 106 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Johnson & Johnson accounts for 95.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $799 and has fallen 55.1% since, to $359 in 2025.

$2,868in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 106 payments — averaging $27.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$3K
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$140

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,868100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	105	$2,728
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$140

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

$2,868 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 125 addiction medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$29,368

Medicare patients

Services billed

362

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
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium	13	$587
Quetiapine Fumarate	30	$580
Gabapentin	20	$458
Olanzapine	19	$324
Mirtazapine	36	$271
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl	12	$260
Clonazepam	39	$245
Divalproex Sodium	12	$240
Fluoxetine Hcl	17	$198
Trazodone Hcl	27	$180
Risperidone	12	$169
Benztropine Mesylate	13	$142
Lamotrigine	15	$124
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	11	$114
Sertraline Hcl	23	$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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