Syed Zaidi, MD
Internal Medicine · Ripley, TNNPI 1669479036
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 155 payments — averaging $19.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$527
- Novo Nordisk$386
- AbbVie$269
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$261
- Lilly USA, LLC$205
- Boehringer Ingelheim$129
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,97899%
- Education$161%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 41 | $527 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $386 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $269 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $261 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $205 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $129 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $113 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 5 | $104 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $104 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 7 | $99 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $66 |
| Abbott | 3 | $65 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $40 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Circassia Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Bayer | 2 | $31 |
| Novartis | 1 | $31 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| CMP Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,995 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
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 | 139 | $68,393 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 52 | $41,617 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 40 | $41,204 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 38 | $40,594 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 38 | $38,017 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 30 | $37,299 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 38 | $27,720 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 44 | $27,687 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 29 | $24,286 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 18 | $11,991 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 20 | $11,306 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 18 | $10,511 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 14 | $9,881 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 11 | $9,710 |
| ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf | 40 | $8,999 |
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 | $40 | $68,393139 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix | $527 | $59,30289 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $104 | $56,02077 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Synjardy | $129 | $51,58067 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $205 | $38,01738 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $386 | $37,29930 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $11 | $27,72038 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $113 | $27,68744 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $30 | $10,51118 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 80th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Ripley
- Mark McKenzieChattanooga$11.9M
- Bernard GrunstraBristol$6.4M
- Jewel WhiteKingsport$5.7M
- Judith WhiteKingsport$5.6M
- Obadias MarquezOoltewah$2.8M
- Amanda Moore MillerKnoxville$2.3M
- Rick WhilesBristol$1.5M
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- David MorinKingsport$1.4M
- John KirbyJefferson City$1.2M
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.