Saquib Rahim, MD
Hospitalist · Flushing, NYNPI 1144488560
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $206,259 of the $238,579 with a category attached, or 86.5%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. Among hospitalist clinicians in NY 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 54 payments — averaging $4418.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$239K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$206,25986%
- Travel & lodging$28,79212%
- Food & beverage$3,5291%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 54 | $238,579 |
How this compares
$238,579 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,860 hospitalist providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 26 | $1,600 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 22 | $582 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 57 | $544 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 17 | $271 |
| Losartan Potassium | 49 | $232 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 38 | $195 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 17 | $171 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 25 | $81 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $80 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $72 |
| Carvedilol | 14 | $57 |
| Metronidazole | 12 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Flushing
- Shine KimFlushing$5K
- Nelson Chan-HungRochester$445K
- Zainab Mogul-AshrafMiddletown$190K
- Salman AzimRochester$88K
- Usman SiddiquiNyack$70K
- Yair SapersteinNew York$43K
- Timothy TiutanNew York$42K
- Heather ZadeAlbany$37K
- Natasha VartakNew York$35K
- Sunil BhattNew York$25K
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.