Saman Fakheri, MD
Internal Medicine · Northridge, CANPI 1790017218
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 285 payments — averaging $33.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Novartis$758
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$747
- Boston Scientific$646
- Johnson & Johnson$352
- AstraZeneca$235
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,620100%
- Education$460%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 89 | $5,234 |
| Novartis | 53 | $758 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 46 | $747 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $646 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $352 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $235 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $187 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $186 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $151 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 2 | $146 |
| Merck | 5 | $127 |
| Amgen | 4 | $118 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $81 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $77 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $65 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $57 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $50 |
| Bayer | 3 | $43 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Amryt Pharma Holdings Ltd | 1 | $22 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| GSK | 1 | $20 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 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.
- Confirm Rx$682
- JOT DX$391
- AVEIR$291
- Indigo System$235
- INVOKANA$234
- LifeVest$205
- Quadra Assura CRT Defibrillator$159
- AVVIGO Guidance System$147
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$143
- Merlin Connectivity and Remote$136
- AFREZZA$125
- ASSURITY$108
- Quadra Allure MP RF CRT Pacemkr$105
- Fortify Assura, Ellipse ICD$103
How this compares
$9,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 748 | $848,183 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 306 | $322,692 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 117 | $103,727 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 91 | $82,420 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 76 | $65,586 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 89 | $47,433 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 42 | $44,118 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 30 | $35,539 |
| VerquvoVericiguat | 31 | $23,313 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 66 | $14,374 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 13 | $13,165 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 279 | $10,836 |
| Losartan Potassium | 728 | $5,758 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 742 | $5,659 |
| Carvedilol | 768 | $5,154 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $65 | $848,183748 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $758 | $322,692306 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga | $235 | $169,313193 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $352 | $82,42091 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $50 | $35,53930 claims |
| MerckVerquvo | $127 | $23,31331 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 90th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.
Other internal medicine in Northridge
- Masoud AzizadNorthridge$21.1M
- Christopher ChowNorthridge$9.2M
- Andrew ChengSouth San Francisco$55.1M
- Joel NeutelTustin$34.9M
- Donald BrandonSan Diego$34M
- William TownerLos Angeles$27.4M
- Rahul AggarwalSan Francisco$24M
- Helen StaceyWalnut Creek$20.4M
- Rohit Loombala Jolla$15.1M
- Zeid KayaliColton$14.2M
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.