Abbas Al-Qamari, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1003062175
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $34,957 of the $40,480 with a category attached, or 86.4%. Potrero Medical, Inc. accounts for 63.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,512, more than ten times the $26 reported in 2019. Among critical care medicine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 18 payments — averaging $2248.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Potrero Medical, Inc.$26K
- GE HealthCare$11K
- Instrumentation Laboratory Company$1K
- Masimo Corporation$1K
- Medline Industries LP$971
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$26
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,95786%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,1705%
- Travel & lodging$3,1578%
- Food & beverage$1960%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 5 | $25,742 |
| GE HealthCare | 7 | $11,457 |
| Instrumentation Laboratory Company | 1 | $1,200 |
| Masimo Corporation | 3 | $1,085 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $971 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $26 |
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.
- AISYS$9,215
- SET and rainbow SET$1,085
- SedLine$1,085
- Patient SafetyNet System$1,085
How this compares
$40,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 281 critical care medicine providers in Illinois.
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 critical care medicine in Chicago
- Michael CutticaChicago$402K
- Israel RubinsteinChicago$107K
- Michael RiesChicago$13K
- Marc SalaChicago$8K
- Marie StockChicago$7K
- Brian HarrChicago$7K
- Dean SchraufnagelChicago$6K
- Kristin ShannonChicago$5K
- Mohamed AfifiChicago$4K
- Clifton ClarkeChicago$3K
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.