RxDoctor Payments Data

Sasan Sakiani, MD

Hepatology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1932339173

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $16,772 of the $22,279 with a category attached, or 75.3%. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals accounts for 90.3% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,544, more than ten times the $248 reported in 2019.

$22,279in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $212.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$20K
  • Gilead$697
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$396
  • Medtronic$170
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$156
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$114
  • plus $637 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9684%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$16,77275%
  • Travel & lodging$1,1015%
  • Food & beverage$3,39715%
  • Education$420%

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

Too few hepatology providers in Marylandto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$82,886
Medicare patients
301
Services billed
696

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
XifaxanRifaximin64$203,040
Everolimus58$92,047
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide33$47,103
Tacrolimus128$11,634
Ursodiol54$10,863
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium42$10,738
Azathioprine17$8,782
LinzessLinaclotide11$6,679
Cyclosporine ModifiedCyclosporine, Modified15$1,057
Lactulose23$670
Famotidine21$613
Spironolactone35$480
Carvedilol43$232
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl11$212
Pantoprazole Sodium26$197

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$396$203,04064 claims
GileadVemlidy$697$47,10333 claims
AbbVieLinzess$27$6,67911 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. There are too few hepatology providers in Marylandon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Other hepatology in Baltimore

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