Abdelwahaab Akef, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1558309542
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 22 payments — averaging $20.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$85
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$60
- Abbott$44
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$41
- Edwards Lifesciences$39
- Inari Medical, Inc.$34
- plus $143 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$446100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 4 | $85 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Abbott | 2 | $44 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $39 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $32 |
| Stryker | 1 | $27 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 57 | $69,625 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $18,527 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 162 | $2,671 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 114 | $2,056 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 112 | $1,742 |
| Ezetimibe | 76 | $1,394 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 102 | $1,272 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 75 | $1,147 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 13 | $1,080 |
| Bumetanide | 17 | $783 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 33 | $660 |
| Carvedilol | 52 | $565 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 53 | $550 |
| Pentoxifylline | 12 | $525 |
| Lisinopril | 43 | $520 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Minneapolis
- Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3.6M
- Thomas KnickelbineMinneapolis$1.6M
- Tamas AlexyMinneapolis$1.5M
- Joao CavalcanteMinneapolis$1.4M
- Daniel DuprezMinneapolis$1.2M
- Markus MeyerMinneapolis$1.1M
- Thenappan ThenappanMinneapolis$809K
- Mario GoesslMinneapolis$770K
- David Miranda HerreraMinneapolis$760K
- Yader Sandoval PichardoMinneapolis$701K
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.