Usman Salahuddin
Cardiovascular Disease · Meridian, MSNPI 1932540960
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $53.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$724
- Abiomed$652
- AstraZeneca$393
- Penumbra, Inc.$305
- Inari Medical, Inc.$265
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,23924%
- Food & beverage$3,92175%
- Education$892%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 13 | $1,575 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $724 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $652 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $393 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 5 | $305 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 10 | $265 |
| Amgen | 7 | $216 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $163 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $145 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $113 |
| Bayer | 1 | $102 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $96 |
| Novartis | 6 | $93 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $86 |
| Merck | 3 | $64 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $21 |
| BD | 1 | $18 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 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.
- Crosser iQ$498
- Impella$354
- Indigo$150
- GENERAL - STENTS$143
- FARXIGA$125
- Repatha$124
- ELIQUIS$121
- GENERAL VASCULAR ACCESS$103
- Kerendia$102
- Definity$100
How this compares
$5,250 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.
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 | 170 | $164,606 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 114 | $134,129 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 127 | $124,426 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 80 | $84,736 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 38 | $31,513 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 42 | $24,812 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 23 | $12,500 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 367 | $5,431 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 166 | $2,125 |
| Cilostazol | 53 | $1,543 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 16 | $1,456 |
| Carvedilol | 183 | $1,409 |
| Losartan Potassium | 120 | $1,044 |
| Potassium Chloride | 66 | $1,043 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 97 | $1,038 |
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 | $163 | $164,606170 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $13 | $134,129114 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $93 | $124,426127 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $393 | $109,548122 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $15 | $31,51338 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 55th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.
Other cardiovascular disease in Meridian
- Larry HaileyMeridian$10K
- Thomas PlavacMeridian$9K
- Charles DavenportMeridian$9K
- Randall JoransenMeridian$7K
- Barry BertoletTupelo$6.4M
- Dharmesh PatelSouthaven$1.9M
- James HaysJackson$782K
- John EstessTupelo$416K
- Donny StokesJackson$277K
- Mahmoud ZayedPascagoula$103K
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.