Sajid Farooq, MD
Hospitalist · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1710275896
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Boston Scientific accounts for 72.6% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,410 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $663 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in OH 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.
Across 39 payments — averaging $80.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$222
- Edwards Lifesciences$127
- AbbVie$117
- AstraZeneca$55
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$48
- plus $290 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,61852%
- Food & beverage$1,51448%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $2,273 |
| Abbott | 3 | $222 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $127 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $117 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $55 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $38 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $37 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $11 |
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.
- EKOSONIC$2,100
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$127
- MitraClip$113
How this compares
$3,132 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 813 hospitalist providers in Ohio.
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.
Other hospitalist in Cincinnati
- Geeta SrivastavaCincinnati$10K
- Robert RubinCincinnati$9K
- Arunab MehtaCincinnati$4K
- Khaled Abou El-EzzCincinnati$3K
- Sneha CentalaCincinnati$3K
- Galina KraytermanCincinnati$3K
- Ahmed GiwaCincinnati$2K
- Zachary SmithCincinnati$2K
- Rafael FleitesCincinnati$1K
- Marco CallirgosCincinnati$1K
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.