Has Murtaza Dawood, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $82,102 in general payments to Murtaza Dawood, MD across 216 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 Murtaza Dawood, 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 Murtaza Dawood, 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.

Murtaza Dawood, MD

Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1699947697

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $65,361 of the $82,102 with a category attached, or 79.6%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 63.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34,616, more than ten times the $1,320 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in MD 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.

$82,102in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 216 payments — averaging $380.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$52K
Edwards Lifesciences$22K
Medtronic$6K
Abbott$603
Angiodynamics, Inc.$455
Johnson & Johnson$287
plus $1K from 12 others

$286,526in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $8427.23 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.

Edwards Lifesciences$151K
AbbVie$112K
Medtronic$15K
Abbott$6K
Atricure, Inc.$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$65,36180%
Travel & lodging$8,77611%
Food & beverage$7,96510%

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
Atricure, Inc.	73	$52,279
Edwards Lifesciences	47	$21,540
Medtronic	53	$5,502
Abbott	8	$603
Angiodynamics, Inc.	5	$455
Johnson & Johnson	6	$287
Artivion, Inc.	2	$277
Bolton Medical Inc	3	$219
Abiomed	3	$211
Baxter Healthcare	2	$160
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$153
Boston Scientific	2	$115
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$114
Cook Medical LLC	5	$86
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$36
Stryker	1	$29
LSI Solutions Inc	1	$20
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$16

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

$82,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 493 surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$136,266

Medicare patients

Services billed

270

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.

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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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