Has Talha Farid, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,054 in general payments to Talha Farid, MD across 136 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 Talha Farid, 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 Talha Farid, 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.

Talha Farid, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Cedar Rapids, IANPI 1396090353

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (44.6%), grants and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 34.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,726 and has fallen 80.9% since, to $1,476 in 2025.

$17,054in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $125.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$6K
Boston Scientific$5K
Abbott$5K
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$360
GE HealthCare$107
Philips North America LLC$89
plus $93 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Grants$5,00029%
Travel & lodging$7,60845%
Food & beverage$3,94923%
Education$4973%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	11	$5,959
Boston Scientific	33	$5,476
Abbott	79	$4,969
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	6	$360
GE HealthCare	1	$107
Philips North America LLC	2	$89
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	2	$59
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$20
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	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.

How this compares

$17,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 42 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$382,061

Medicare patients

1,062

Services billed

3,924

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	679	$736,857
XareltoRivaroxaban	252	$267,179
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	21	$23,178
Flecainide Acetate	219	$10,103
Metoprolol Succinate	763	$8,150
SotalolSotalol Hcl	459	$6,771
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate	14	$4,853
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	273	$4,701
Dofetilide	16	$3,451
Amiodarone Hcl	241	$3,155
Potassium Chloride	54	$1,264
Digoxin	23	$734
Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl	15	$540
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	100	$508
Pantoprazole Sodium	113	$438

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Cedar Rapids

Mohit ChawlaCedar Rapids$101K
Weiwei LiCedar Rapids$11K
Mark MiltonCedar Rapids$5K
David GlassmanCedar Rapids$391
Todd LangagerCedar Rapids$0
Steven MickelsenIowa City$2.4M
Jason MeyersWest Des Moines$189K
Paari DominicIowa City$83K
Nilarun ChowdhuriDavenport$73K
Peter FarjoIowa City$72K

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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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