Saro Sarkisian, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Frederick, MDNPI 1164735387
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 92 payments — averaging $1161.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$32K
- AstraZeneca$24K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$22K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$13K
- Pfizer$6K
- Novocure Inc.$4K
- plus $7K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,18030%
- Speaking & faculty fees$32,22359%
- Travel & lodging$2,7605%
- Food & beverage$2,7735%
- Education$5151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 21 | $31,868 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $23,594 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $21,619 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 15 | $13,002 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $5,823 |
| Novocure Inc. | 4 | $4,375 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $3,047 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $1,793 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $405 |
| Amgen | 4 | $199 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 3 | $155 |
| Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Novartis | 1 | $125 |
| Gilead | 1 | $112 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $76 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 2 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| EUSA Pharma (US) LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$106,899 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 242 hematology & oncology providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lenalidomide | 48 | $650,334 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 45 | $589,745 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 27 | $503,713 |
| BrukinsaZanubrutinib | 28 | $413,000 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 23 | $338,604 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 14 | $275,526 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 40 | $243,996 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 15 | $230,291 |
| BesremiRopeginterferon Alfa-2b-Njft | 13 | $219,645 |
| OrgovyxRelugolix | 61 | $171,411 |
| LynparzaOlaparib | 14 | $165,311 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 15 | $162,472 |
| EliquisApixaban | 160 | $112,499 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 11 | $106,746 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 31 | $24,575 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BayerNubeqa | $21 | $589,74545 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $21,619 | $503,71327 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence, Lynparza | $23,594 | $395,60329 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada, Xarelto | $76 | $363,17954 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $405 | $275,52614 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Orgovyx | $110 | $171,41161 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $31,868 | $162,47215 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $5,823 | $112,499160 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Sprycel | $13,002 | $106,74611 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 70th percentile of 242 hematology & oncology providers in Maryland.
Other hematology & oncology in Frederick
- Sadaf TaimurFrederick$165K
- Robert KreitmanOlney$54.2M
- Ralph BocciaBethesda$12.1M
- Dan ZandbergBaltimore$9.9M
- Ani BalmanoukianBaltimore$6.6M
- Mark MarkowskiBaltimore$5.9M
- Giuseppe GiacconeBethesda$5.4M
- Ivana GojoBaltimore$5M
- Suman RaoBaltimore$4.2M
- Tim GretenBethesda$4.2M
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.