Has Tariq Salam, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $56,219 in general payments to Tariq Salam, MD across 170 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 Tariq Salam, 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 Tariq Salam, 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.

Tariq Salam, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Tacoma, WANPI 1043294291

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (46.8%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Biosense Webster, Inc. accounts for 70.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $31,449 and has fallen 86.8% since, to $4,148 in 2025.

$56,219in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $330.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biosense Webster, Inc.$40K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Abbott$3K
Medtronic$3K
Baylis Medical Company Inc$2K
Bayer$1K
plus $1K from 4 others

$65,751in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $2988.68 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$43K
Medtronic$23K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$20,65037%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,9503%
Travel & lodging$26,33347%
Food & beverage$7,28613%

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
Biosense Webster, Inc.	77	$39,757
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$5,460
Abbott	24	$3,265
Medtronic(2 entities)	34	$3,232
Baylis Medical Company Inc	2	$1,983
Bayer	11	$1,295
Boston Scientific	13	$1,156
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$38
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$18
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$14

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

$56,219 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 68 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$354,563

Medicare patients

898

Services billed

5,045

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	285	$284,910
XareltoRivaroxaban	104	$132,931
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate	22	$4,472
Flecainide Acetate	92	$2,484
Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl	13	$2,355
Metoprolol Succinate	217	$2,260
Dofetilide	12	$1,723
Colchicine	51	$1,389
Amiodarone Hcl	56	$902
Dilt-XrDiltiazem Hcl	23	$765
SotalolSotalol Hcl	28	$546
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Xr)Diltiazem Hcl	28	$529
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	19	$398
Cartia XtDiltiazem Hcl	15	$372
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	45	$280

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Tacoma

Nasir ShariffTacoma$12K
Michael EskanderTacoma$10K
Jeffrey HoTacoma$8K
Michael BelzTacoma$3K
Nathan SegersonTacoma$3K
Michael RomeTacoma$1K
Gust BardySeattle$130.7M
Babak NazerSeattle$124K
Maheer GandhavadiBellevue$118K
Toshimasa OkabeSeattle$114K

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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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