Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

FAISAL ZAEEM

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

NPI
1336348424
CMS profile
241758
Location
LAS CRUCES, NM

General Payments · PY2018–2021

$1,167.45

  • Reported across 42 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2021

$295.22

13 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2021 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $295.22 13

By paying entity

PY2021 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION $239.41 10
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $21.23 1
Acerta Pharma LLC $18.91 1
Amgen Inc. $15.67 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $625.64 16
PY2019 $124.07 6
PY2020 $122.52 7
PY2021 $295.22 13

Payment records · PY2021 (13)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2021 201820192020 Record-level detail is published for PY2021; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Amgen Inc. $15.67 07/12/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 825309873 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.91 07/20/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 830048049 CMS
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $21.23 05/18/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 777573113 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $21.71 01/13/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383335 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $17.83 02/11/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383331 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $24.55 02/24/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383339 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $25.00 02/24/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383343 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $22.31 04/09/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383347 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $37.76 04/27/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383359 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23.19 06/09/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383351 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $18.21 08/16/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383355 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23.85 08/23/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383367 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $25.00 09/10/2021 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 813383363 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2021_P01232026_01102026.csv

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