Saliha Erdem
Internal Medicine · Detroit, MINPI 1447831359
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 76 payments — averaging $43.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$744
- Boston Scientific$515
- Amgen$297
- Abiomed$232
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$199
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$183
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,14594%
- Education$1956%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 15 | $744 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $515 |
| Amgen | 13 | $297 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $232 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 5 | $199 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $174 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $158 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $129 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $126 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $103 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Novartis | 1 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$414
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$195
- AlphaVac$183
- General - Balloon Catheters$163
- XARELTO$126
- (6342) Intrasight Integrated$124
- Penumbra System$119
- Repatha$114
- SYNERGY$110
- LifeVest$103
How this compares
$3,340 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Detroit
- Ding WangDetroit$6.8M
- Dipenkumar ModiDetroit$4.1M
- Rana BalboulDetroit$2.4M
- Philip KuriakoseDetroit$1.9M
- Erlene SeymourDetroit$797K
- Sheela TejwaniDetroit$712K
- Vrushali DabakDetroit$509K
- James McCordDetroit$493K
- Saroj NeupaneDetroit$487K
- David StocktonDetroit$402K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.