Ahmad Rayes
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1689906356
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Pharming Healthcare, Inc. accounts for 84.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,281, more than ten times the $297 reported in 2022.
Across 19 payments — averaging $266.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pharming Healthcare, Inc.$4K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$304
- Sobi, Inc$214
- Novartis$119
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$77
- CSL Behring$54
- plus $32 from 2 others
Across 95 payments — averaging $6411.12 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$364K
- ADMA Biomanufacturing LLC$92K
- CSL Behring$89K
- National Marrow Donor Program$65K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,62152%
- Travel & lodging$1,51430%
- Food & beverage$93118%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 6 | $4,267 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $304 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $214 |
| Novartis | 1 | $119 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $77 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $54 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Mesoblast, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$5,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 24 pediatric hematology-oncology providers in Utah.
Other pediatric hematology-oncology in Salt Lake City
- Richard LemonsSalt Lake City$753K
- Luke MaeseSalt Lake City$332K
- Hassan YaishSalt Lake City$113K
- Julie AschSalt Lake City$62K
- Nicholas WhippleSalt Lake City$3K
- Michell Lozano ChingaSalt Lake City$1K
- Soohee ChoSalt Lake City$948
- Joseph DolanSalt Lake City$295
- Mark FluchelSalt Lake City$235
- Elaine FanSalt Lake City$229
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.