Usama Assaad, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Jackson, MINPI 1497097174
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 168 payments — averaging $34.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$970
- GSK$838
- Pulmonx Corporation$773
- AstraZeneca$465
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$300
- Boehringer Ingelheim$237
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,56127%
- Food & beverage$4,01369%
- Education$2504%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $970 |
| GSK | 35 | $838 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 4 | $773 |
| AstraZeneca | 27 | $465 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $300 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $237 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $235 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 10 | $206 |
| Stryker | 1 | $197 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $193 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $168 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 7 | $135 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 7 | $101 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $78 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $77 |
| 3b Medical, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Merck | 2 | $55 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $48 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $22 |
| ZOLL Respicardia, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 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
$5,824 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 463 pulmonary disease providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 481 | $403,876 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 106 | $77,381 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 79 | $51,724 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 65 | $39,028 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 33 | $31,014 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 56 | $19,960 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 28 | $19,814 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 28 | $15,688 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 171 | $9,912 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 16 | $7,445 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 106 | $7,022 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 35 | $6,479 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 12 | $3,421 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 125 | $1,495 |
| Azithromycin | 94 | $1,423 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $838 | $466,036590 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat | $237 | $129,105185 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $465 | $50,97489 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 65th percentile of 463 pulmonary disease providers in Michigan.
Other pulmonary disease in Jackson
- Njira LugogoAnn Arbor$12.9M
- Timothy BlackwellAnn Arbor$2.5M
- Kevin FlahertyAnn Arbor$2.3M
- Meilan HanAnn Arbor$1.8M
- Gary FergusonLivonia$1.5M
- Justin OldhamAnn Arbor$1.4M
- Robert PaineAnn Arbor$1.3M
- Irina ShanidzeFarmington Hills$1.2M
- Oscar Parodi Ortiz de VillateWarren$1.1M
- Yvonne HuangAnn Arbor$1.1M
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.