Syed Akhtar, MD
Medical Oncology · Beaumont, TXNPI 1124060124
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 160 payments — averaging $22.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$462
- Pfizer$334
- Gilead$218
- Johnson & Johnson$209
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$182
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$177
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,36393%
- Education$2557%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 20 | $462 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $334 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 9 | $218 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $209 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $182 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $177 |
| Sanofi | 6 | $173 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $121 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $121 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $119 |
| Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Merck | 5 | $110 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 4 | $104 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $100 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $90 |
| Puma Biotechnology, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $84 |
| Seagen Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $58 |
| Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation | 2 | $55 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $53 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $28 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $22 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$3,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 495 medical oncology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 44 | $765,487 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 46 | $711,544 |
| Lenalidomide | 33 | $458,396 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 27 | $452,378 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 29 | $447,624 |
| TasignaNilotinib Hcl | 11 | $225,541 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 11 | $181,795 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 40 | $59,852 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 49 | $30,917 |
| EliquisApixaban | 28 | $27,749 |
| Aprepitant | 16 | $12,202 |
| Anastrozole | 181 | $2,404 |
| Megestrol Acetate | 24 | $1,402 |
| Dexamethasone | 35 | $1,220 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $1,019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $121 | $765,48744 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $334 | $739,29374 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $58 | $447,62429 claims |
| NovartisTasigna | $462 | $225,54111 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Sprycel | $182 | $181,79511 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $209 | $30,91749 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCOlanzapine | $121 | $9818 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 30th percentile of 495 medical oncology providers in Texas.
Other medical oncology in Beaumont
- Hagop KantarjianHouston$100.5M
- Timothy YapHouston$56.7M
- Yasir ElaminHouston$41.3M
- David HongHouston$31.6M
- Guillermo Garcia-ManeroHouston$31.6M
- Jason WestinHouston$30.8M
- Sawsan RashdanDallas$29.9M
- Lucia MasarovaHouston$29.7M
- Jordi Rodon AhnertHouston$28.1M
- Sarina Piha PaulHouston$26M
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.