Has Shama Saqi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $962 in general payments to Shama Saqi, 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 Shama Saqi, 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 Shama Saqi, 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.

Shama Saqi, MD

Psychiatry · Bronx, NYNPI 1326235896

Payments from drug & device makers

$962in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $41.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$483
Alkermes, Inc.$194
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$73
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$63
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$55
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$40
plus $54 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$93597%
Education$273%

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
Johnson & Johnson	8	$483
Alkermes, Inc.	4	$194
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$73
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$63
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$55
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$40
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$36
Neurocrine Biosciences, 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

$962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,713 psychiatry providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$28,901

Medicare patients

Services billed

196

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
Clozapine	114	$4,000
Aripiprazole	14	$2,765
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	17	$2,332
Duloxetine Hcl	82	$1,597
Doxepin Hcl	34	$1,155
Escitalopram Oxalate	47	$752
Trazodone Hcl	60	$612
Mirtazapine	49	$594
Divalproex Sodium	18	$551
Quetiapine Fumarate	82	$514
Lamotrigine	28	$385
Clonazepam	137	$355
Olanzapine	19	$339
Fluoxetine Hcl	34	$300
Alprazolam	77	$266

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Bronx

George KruseBronx$1.2M
Elyssa BarronWhite Plains$12.8M
Mark DibuonoStaten Island$11.9M
Ronald BrennerHempstead$11.5M
Anton PorsteinssonRochester$7.6M
Michael LiebowitzNew York$7.1M
Leslie CitromePomona$5.7M
John KaneGlen Oaks$4M
Inna Yuryev-GolgerBrooklyn$3M
Subhdeep VirkBuffalo$3M

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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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