Has Roland El Ghazal, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,069 in general payments to Roland El Ghazal, MD across 37 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 Roland El Ghazal, 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 Roland El Ghazal, 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.

Roland El Ghazal, MD

Critical Care Medicine · New Haven, CTNPI 1649465469

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $14,017 of the $19,069 with a category attached, or 73.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among critical care medicine clinicians in CT with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$19,069in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $515.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$17K
Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
Edwards Lifesciences$197
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$135
Olympus America Inc.$133
Insmed, Inc.$34
plus $33 from 2 others

$114,716in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $4779.83 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.

EMD Serono, Inc.$115K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,6208%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,5008%
Travel & lodging$2841%
Food & beverage$1,6479%
Education$14,01774%

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
Intuitive Surgical	27	$16,714
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$1,822
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$197
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	1	$135
Olympus America Inc.	1	$133
Insmed, Inc.	2	$34
Breas Medical, Inc.	1	$19
Cook Medical LLC	1	$15

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

$19,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 51 critical care medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,226

Medicare patients

262

Services billed

727

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter	63	$56,945
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol	19	$12,361
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr	11	$7,880
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide	11	$5,534
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol	50	$5,302
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate	12	$4,668
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf	13	$4,076
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol	23	$3,312
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	42	$1,061
Ethambutol Hcl	14	$996
Rifampin	11	$895
Azithromycin	59	$788
Fluticasone Propionate	45	$614
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	28	$547
Prednisone	75	$507

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other critical care medicine in New Haven

Akhil KhoslaNew Haven$12K
Andrew NotarianniNew Haven$4K
Adel Bassily-MarcusNew Haven$4K
Shahrukh ArifNew Haven$4K
Mubdiul AliNew Haven$3K
Laura NiklasonNew Haven$2K
Jennifer PersioNew Haven$2K
Harinder RanaNew Haven$612
Ghaith AbdulkarimNew Haven$148
Felipe Lopez GonzalezNew Haven$101

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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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