RxDoctor Payments Data

Raman Saharan, MD

Hospitalist · Monroe, LANPI 1801081245

Payments from drug & device makers

$186in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $20.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$46
  • Merck$35
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$32
  • Pfizer$23
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$19
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$17
  • plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$186100%

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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23
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25

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.

How this compares

$186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 301 hospitalist providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$132,776
Medicare patients
366
Services billed
1,423

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
EliquisApixaban54$29,702
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$15,842
Metoprolol Succinate44$413
Atorvastatin Calcium35$367
Pantoprazole Sodium34$328
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate25$215
Losartan Potassium16$203
Amiodarone Hcl13$197
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl18$170
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil21$163
Gabapentin11$107
Metronidazole11$103
Metoprolol Tartrate23$90
Cefdinir13$88
Furosemide43$87

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$23$29,70254 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 301 hospitalist providers in Louisiana.

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