Sahira Sekhon, MD
Sleep Medicine · Rockville, MDNPI 1396235040
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 33 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $469, 5.1 times the $92 reported in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for sleep medicine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $962.
Across 33 payments — averaging $29.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$221
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$143
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$118
- Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$71
- Johnson & Johnson$65
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$54
- plus $289 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$962100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $221 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 4 | $143 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 4 | $71 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $65 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| 3b Medical, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $27 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 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
$962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 41 sleep medicine providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trazodone Hcl | 13 | $126 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sleep medicine in Rockville
- Asefa MekonnenRockville$28K
- Pamela HowardRockville$14K
- Talar KachechianRockville$4K
- Yash MehndirattaRockville$1K
- Ritula MehndirattaRockville$273
- Syed AhmedGermantown$75K
- Konrad BakkerFrederick$8K
- Amandeep BawaBaltimore$7K
- Stephanie WappelTowson$4K
- Catherine GriffinBaltimore$3K
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.