Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Firas Hougeir

Dermatology Douglasville, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1023095957 CMS profile 45926

4645 Timber Ridge Dr, Ste 100, Douglasville, GA 30135

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General payments

$3,135,926

3,541 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$3,151

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$116,517 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Firas Hougeir of Douglasville, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,135,926 across 3,541 general payments and $3,151 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $116,517 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Dermatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $580,721 489
2025 Research $3,151 1
2024 General $652,092 662
2023 General $669,837 760
2022 General $529,786 573
2021 General $196,678 247
2020 General $175,337 216
2019 General $331,474 594

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Firas Hougeir
  • Dermatology median
  • Middle half of Dermatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Firas Hougeir were reported at $580,721. Among 10,363 Dermatology profiles paid that year, the median was $788 and the middle half received between $207 and $1,974.

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Year Firas Hougeir Dermatology median Middle half National median
2019 $331,474 $454 $129–$1,240 $163
2020 $175,337 $235 $81–$756 $114
2021 $196,678 $377 $108–$1,108 $132
2022 $529,786 $514 $143–$1,391 $149
2023 $669,837 $607 $159–$1,674 $160
2024 $652,092 $751 $204–$1,903 $164
2025 $580,721 $788 $207–$1,974 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UCB, Inc. $470,959 588 payments
  2. Lilly USA, LLC $458,027 529 payments
  3. LEO Pharma Inc. $442,174 317 payments
  4. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $397,545 336 payments
  5. Amgen Inc. $299,145 359 payments
  6. AbbVie, Inc. $126,129 174 payments
  7. Incyte Corporation $120,338 178 payments
  8. Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $105,506 107 payments
  9. Genzyme Corporation $88,603 101 payments
  10. Celgene Corporation $74,575 71 payments
  11. Other $552,924 781 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $2,254,715 707 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $483,412 200 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $259,796 1,140 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $68,488 1,460 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $52,000 15 payments
  6. Honoraria $16,791 7 payments
  7. Education $644 11 payments
  8. Grant $80 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ADBRY $383,533 262 payments
  2. SOTYKTU $335,604 309 payments
  3. Otezla $296,150 353 payments
  4. Bimzelx $243,231 295 payments
  5. TALTZ $224,051 262 payments
  6. Cimzia $141,844 192 payments
  7. DUPIXENT $118,133 127 payments
  8. OLUMIANT $117,832 111 payments
  9. OPZELURA $107,714 163 payments
  10. VTAMA $92,826 89 payments
  11. Other $814,118 1,186 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $3,151 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 13 drugs

Part D claims

683

Median for Dermatology: 534

Drug cost

$526,690

Median for Dermatology: $67,151

Branded share of claims

11.9%

Median for Dermatology: 8.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Bimzelx Autoinjector Bimekizumab-Bkzx Brand 12 $174,308
Otezla Apremilast Brand 26 $142,066
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens) Secukinumab Brand 12 $87,481
Adbry Tralokinumab-Ldrm Brand 17 $63,692
Olumiant Baricitinib Brand 14 $50,484
Clobetasol Propionate Generic 50 $1,728
Ketoconazole Generic 105 $1,541
Triamcinolone Acetonide Generic 145 $1,358
Doxycycline Hyclate Generic 113 $1,195
Metronidazole Generic 22 $976

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,550 Part D prescribers listed as Dermatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 84 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$666,815

Of which drugs: $3,520

Medicare patients

802

Average age 76

Services billed

3,712

305 women, 497 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 47%
Diabetes 33%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Atrial fibrillation 21%
Heart failure 20%
COPD 19%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 33 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
SOTYKTU
$114,686 — —
Bimzelx
$106,364 12 —
ADBRY
$99,560 17 —
Otezla
$70,986 26 —
Zoryve
$29,150 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

3,542 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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