RxDoctor Payments Data

Naim Bouhussein, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Statesville, NCNPI 1932214137

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,587in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 78 payments — averaging $20.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$289
  • Pfizer$268
  • Amgen$265
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$113
  • Johnson & Johnson$101
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$98
  • plus $452 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,35385%
  • Education$23415%

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

$1,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$235,951
Medicare patients
1,008
Services billed
3,917

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
EliquisApixaban1,134$866,035
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab175$122,795
XareltoRivaroxaban177$119,008
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan76$54,833
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$49,776
Praluent PenAlirocumab30$31,851
MultaqDronedarone Hcl16$15,892
Metoprolol Succinate790$8,879
Rosuvastatin Calcium860$8,535
Droxidopa12$8,527
Dofetilide32$7,095
Ezetimibe432$6,202
Atorvastatin Calcium686$6,014
Carvedilol829$5,157
Valsartan134$4,279

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
PfizerEliquis$268$866,0351,134 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$101$119,008177 claims
NovartisEntresto$96$54,83376 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$13$49,77668 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq$98$15,89216 claims
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo$11$3,86512 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 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.

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