RxDoctor Payments Data

Shaker Saman, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Norfolk, VANPI 1063417707

Payments from drug & device makers

$399in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $66.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Array Biopharma Inc$150
  • AstraZeneca$110
  • AbbVie$100
  • Pfizer$15
  • Seagen Inc.$12
  • Gilead$12

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$15038%
  • Food & beverage$22456%
  • Education$246%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Array Biopharma Inc1$150
AstraZeneca1$110
AbbVie1$100
Pfizer1$15
Seagen Inc.1$12
Gilead1$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

$399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 293 hematology & oncology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,674,325
Medicare patients
1,115
Services billed
67,538

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
BrukinsaZanubrutinib82$1,128,804
RevlimidLenalidomide50$914,131
CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate42$627,377
Lenalidomide26$359,697
PomalystPomalidomide13$282,670
SprycelDasatinib12$213,810
ImbruvicaIbrutinib13$210,581
VenclextaVenetoclax21$194,765
EliquisApixaban20$13,736
Dexamethasone45$868
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl13$847
Hydroxyurea22$421
Raloxifene Hcl13$417
Letrozole19$349
Levothyroxine Sodium15$200

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
AstraZenecaCalquence$110$627,37742 claims
AbbVieVenclexta$100$194,76521 claims
PfizerEliquis$15$13,73620 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 20th percentile of 293 hematology & oncology providers in Virginia.

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