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Puma System

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Puma System. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$66Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
118clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $3,359
2024 $3,964
2025 $59K

Payments reported as associated with Puma System, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $44K
Pulmonary Disease $19K
Vascular & Interventional Radiology $561
Critical Care Medicine (Anesthesiology) $475
Internal Medicine $438
Diagnostic Radiology $281

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Puma System

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Puma System. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Faraz Jaffer Plantation, FL Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $36,119.44
Angela Argento Baltimore, MD Pulmonary Disease $9,850.10
Ashutosh Sachdeva Baltimore, MD Pulmonary Disease $2,720.77
Jennifer Rippon Baton Rouge, LA Pulmonary Disease $2,029.92
Amay Parikh Orlando, FL Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $1,682.28
Joshua Huelster Minneapolis, MN Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $1,612.20
Nicholas Pastis Columbus, OH Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $1,377.60
Shaheen Islam Augusta, GA Pulmonary Disease $748.26
Asif Saberi Marietta, GA Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $706.51
Samson Zarbiv Camden, NJ Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) $698.78

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.