Has Shakir Hussein, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $953 in general payments to Shakir Hussein, MD across 23 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Shakir Hussein, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Shakir Hussein, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Shakir Hussein, MD

Transplant Surgery · Detroit, MINPI 1609066455

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 23 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. at 24.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $335, 2.8 times the $118 reported in 2019.

$953in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $41.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$230
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$126
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$118
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$117
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$85
Merck$69
plus $207 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$953100%

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
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	6	$230
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$126
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$118
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$117
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$85
Merck	3	$69
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	2	$57
Intuitive Surgical	1	$33
Eurofins Viracor, LLC	1	$28
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$27
AstraZeneca	1	$22
Novo Nordisk	1	$21
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	1	$18

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 transplant surgery providers in Michiganto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$43,770

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium	34	$27,403
Tacrolimus	26	$17,366
Valganciclovir Hcl	55	$15,052
Novolog FlexpenInsulin Aspart	38	$6,019
Ultra-Fine Short Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic	42	$2,595
Prednisone	224	$1,605
Midodrine Hcl	12	$994
Tamsulosin Hcl	96	$862
Potassium Chloride	20	$460
Torsemide	38	$437
Carvedilol	42	$343
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	58	$241
Hydralazine Hcl	23	$234
Amlodipine Besylate	37	$215
Clonidine Hcl	57	$213

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other transplant surgery in Detroit

Atsushi YoshidaDetroit$219K
Adhnan MohamedDetroit$14K
Dean KimDetroit$14K
Ahmed NassarDetroit$6K
Shunji NagaiDetroit$4K
Abbas Al-KurdDetroit$4K
Luckshi RajendranDetroit$2K
Kazuhiro TakahashiDetroit$72
Kyle SheetzAnn Arbor$2K
Ben BiesterveldAnn Arbor$1K

See the full list for Michigan →

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.

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