Suad Ismail, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1578546792
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 453 payments — averaging $109.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$27K
- Amgen$17K
- Pfizer$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$846
- AstraZeneca$584
- Boehringer Ingelheim$553
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$37,51676%
- Travel & lodging$2,8516%
- Food & beverage$9,07418%
- Education$360%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 68 | $26,864 |
| Amgen | 73 | $16,922 |
| Pfizer | 146 | $2,208 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 38 | $846 |
| AstraZeneca | 35 | $584 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $553 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 18 | $348 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 17 | $321 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $170 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 8 | $163 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 7 | $106 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $75 |
| Merck | 4 | $69 |
| Bayer | 2 | $35 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $23 |
| Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
$49,478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 222 | $259,141 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 216 | $153,913 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 91 | $111,504 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 80 | $95,632 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 47 | $37,976 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 27 | $25,521 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 22 | $22,825 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 80 | $11,266 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 21 | $10,902 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 37 | $9,363 |
| Repatha PushtronexEvolocumab | 11 | $6,635 |
| Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters | 68 | $6,555 |
| Valsartan | 151 | $4,782 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 336 | $4,671 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 388 | $4,392 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $2,208 | $259,141222 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $846 | $111,50491 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $584 | $25,52127 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $553 | $22,82522 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 85th percentile of 1,250 cardiovascular disease providers in Pennsylvania.
Other cardiovascular disease in Pittsburgh
- Stephen ChanPittsburgh$1.2M
- Rewat CholapraneePittsburgh$598K
- George GabrielPittsburgh$584K
- Indu PoornimaPittsburgh$422K
- Brian HenryPittsburgh$269K
- Timothy WongPittsburgh$265K
- Mark GreathousePittsburgh$243K
- Danielle DuffyPhiladelphia$29.5M
- Venkatesh NadarCamp Hill$18.3M
- Hemal GadaWormleysburg$6.7M
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.