Sunil Saith
Hospitalist · Washington, DCNPI 1891921037
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — grants (42.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Pfizer accounts for 87.2% of it on its own, with 34 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $90,884 and has fallen 88.0% since, to $10,935 in 2025. Among hospitalist clinicians in DC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 178 payments — averaging $1197.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$186K
- Philips North America LLC$16K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$839
- Medtronic$741
- plus $6K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,6002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$90,18242%
- Grants$91,24543%
- Travel & lodging$17,7248%
- Food & beverage$9,5284%
- Education$9530%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 16 | $185,937 |
| Philips North America LLC | 23 | $15,894 |
| Abbott | 22 | $2,102 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,780 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $839 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $741 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 19 | $538 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $526 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $456 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $441 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $394 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $343 |
| Merck | 8 | $318 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $317 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 3 | $301 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $263 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $237 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $184 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $152 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $149 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $134 |
| Stryker | 2 | $126 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $102 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Bayer | 1 | $27 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$14,390
- VYNDAQEL$3,846
- VYNDAMAX$1,631
- (R11) US EQ Undivided$994
- XARELTO$757
- OPTIS$705
- Zio monitor$410
- ZIO XT Patch$410
- ONYX FRONTIER$399
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$343
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$330
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$330
- Assure WCD$277
- AMVUTTRA$250
- CAMZYOS$250
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$245
- AQUADEX SMARTFLOW CONSOLE$237
- FUROSCIX$230
- VERQUVO$225
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$184
How this compares
$213,233 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 101 hospitalist providers in District of Columbia.
Other hospitalist in Washington
- Katherine GoodrichWashington$937K
- Pedro Alcedo AndradeWashington$48K
- Jason GaloWashington$12K
- Roy TaoutelWashington$4K
- Jamar SlocumWashington$875
- Mehad MusbahWashington$617
- Kathryn HumesWashington$558
- David KingWashington$480
- Truptiben PatelWashington$412
- Mansour MehdiWashington$375
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.