Has Zahid Saeed received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $441,990 in general payments to Zahid Saeed across 89 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 Zahid Saeed 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 Zahid Saeed 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.

Zahid Saeed

Gastroenterology · Crestview Hills, KYNPI 1649269226

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $440,836 of the $441,990 with a category attached, or 99.7%. Cook Incorporated accounts for 93.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $144,341 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $105 in 2023. Among gastroenterology clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$441,990in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 89 payments — averaging $4966.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Cook Incorporated$411K
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$30K
AbbVie$544
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$236
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$143
QOL Medical, LLC$32
plus $198 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$440,836100%
Consulting fees$190%
Food & beverage$1,1360%

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
Cook Incorporated	12	$411,070
Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated	1	$29,766
AbbVie(2 entities)	32	$544
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	15	$236
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	11	$143
QOL Medical, LLC	4	$32
Shionogi Inc	2	$32
Gilead	2	$30
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$26
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	1	$20
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Pfizer	1	$14
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$13
Amgen	1	$11
Merck	1	$11
Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.	1	$2

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.

Saeed$29,766
Mavyret$105

How this compares

$441,990 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 207 gastroenterology providers in Kentucky.

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Other gastroenterology in Crestview Hills

Joel WarrenCrestview Hills$13K
Chadwick HatfieldCrestview Hills$13K
Karlina PattonCrestview Hills$11K
Daniel FagelCrestview Hills$10K
Scott LeverageCrestview Hills$10K
Gerald DrydenLouisville$2.1M
Matthew CaveLouisville$340K
Michael KreaseLouisville$322K
Sunana SohiLouisville$220K
Jeffrey TuvlinLouisville$202K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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