Zahra Pakbaz, MD
Hematology · Orange, CANPI 1942463377
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 227 payments — averaging $7222.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$815K
- Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.$353K
- Amgen$197K
- Vertex$48K
- Novo Nordisk AS$43K
- CSL Behring$41K
- plus $143K from 10 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 41 | $814,885 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 73 | $352,872 |
| Amgen | 9 | $197,234 |
| Vertex | 11 | $48,380 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 7 | $42,896 |
| CSL Behring | 8 | $40,572 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $32,088 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $28,798 |
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $28,411 |
| Sanofi | 16 | $17,156 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 8 | $15,065 |
| Sobi, Inc | 6 | $14,122 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 2 | $6,300 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $500 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $250 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $31 |
How this compares
$1,639,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 178 hematology providers in California.
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.
Other hematology in Orange
- Tait ShanafeltStanford$441.4M
- Alex HerreraDuarte$50.9M
- Hope RugoSan Francisco$23.8M
- Tycel PhillipsDuarte$21.6M
- Lihua BuddeDuarte$21.5M
- Tanya SiddiqiDuarte$18.8M
- Amrita KrishnanDuarte$14M
- Anthony SteinDuarte$12.1M
- Alexey DanilovDuarte$11.3M
- Vincent ChungDuarte$11.1M
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.