Aamir Husain
Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1902300429
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $151.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$9K
- Medtronic$5K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Novartis$764
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$233
- Atricure, Inc.$178
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$14,00070%
- Travel & lodging$1,6458%
- Food & beverage$3,78119%
- Education$6983%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 5 | $9,310 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $5,433 |
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $2,519 |
| Novartis | 35 | $764 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $233 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $177 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $174 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 3 | $158 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 11 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $151 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $142 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $113 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $91 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Merck | 4 | $82 |
| Amgen | 3 | $75 |
| BD | 1 | $44 |
| Bayer | 1 | $33 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $28 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- TACTICATH$4,500
- ASSURITY$4,500
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,274
- Micra$281
- ENSITE$242
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$178
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$157
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$101
How this compares
$20,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Other internal medicine in Chicago
- Dennis LevinsonChicago$25.3M
- Danny SugimotoChicago$4M
- Peter O DonnellChicago$3.9M
- Daniel CatenacciChicago$3.5M
- Patricia WalshChicago$2.1M
- Merle DiamondChicago$1.7M
- Mohammed KassemChicago$1.3M
- David BakerChicago$1M
- Azazuddin AhmedChicago$912K
- Daniel BergerChicago$861K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.