RxDoctor Payments Data

Salim Mehio, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Nashville, TNNPI 1427043645

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,258in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 608 payments — averaging $26.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$3K
  • GSK$2K
  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • Harmony Biosciences LLC$1K
  • Insmed, Inc.$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
  • plus $5K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7995%
  • Food & beverage$12,49177%
  • Education$2,96818%

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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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.

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

$16,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$203,392
Medicare patients
536
Services billed
2,003

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter459$370,546
Pirfenidone19$105,618
Prolastin CAlpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor11$75,813
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol108$57,860
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol51$37,763
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide52$34,625
EliquisApixaban24$21,576
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol97$17,501
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl13$16,494
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide16$15,978
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate415$14,035
DuleraMometasone/Formoterol19$9,480
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide18$8,357
Bevespi AerosphereGlycopyrrolate/Formoterol Fum18$7,916
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate21$7,505

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta$2,115$439,366596 claims
Grifols USA, LLCProlastin C$53$75,81311 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Bevespi Aerosphere, Symbicort$1,879$53,18590 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat$1,158$51,11965 claims
PfizerEliquis$54$21,57624 claims
MerckDulera$79$9,48019 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 75th percentile of 339 pulmonary disease providers in Tennessee.

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