Ahmed Basheer, MD
Internal Medicine · Norfolk, MANPI 1467416958
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $18.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$406
- Pfizer$230
- Novo Nordisk$183
- Boehringer Ingelheim$163
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$158
- Lilly USA, LLC$147
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,347100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $406 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $230 |
| Novo Nordisk | 14 | $183 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $163 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $158 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $147 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $126 |
| Merck | 8 | $116 |
| Amgen | 6 | $114 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $61 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $49 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| GSK | 2 | $38 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Novartis | 2 | $33 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $24 |
| Gilead | 1 | $23 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pear Therapeutics (US), Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $15 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $10 |
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
$2,356 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.
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 | 41 | $37,463 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 28 | $37,138 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 22 | $30,136 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 27 | $26,022 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 90 | $12,666 |
| SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 12 | $5,953 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 29 | $4,397 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 247 | $3,252 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 114 | $2,243 |
| Lisinopril | 206 | $1,962 |
| Simvastatin | 127 | $1,713 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 72 | $1,585 |
| Valsartan | 27 | $1,519 |
| Olmesartan Medoxomil | 13 | $1,396 |
| Omeprazole | 100 | $1,390 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $230 | $37,46341 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $183 | $37,13828 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $163 | $30,13622 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $38 | $26,02227 claims |
| Indivior Inc.Suboxone | $23 | $5,95312 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.
Other internal medicine in Norfolk
- Noopur RajeBoston$19.9M
- Michael McCartneyNewburyport$17.6M
- Rebecca HeistBoston$17.4M
- Richard PlattBoston$13.5M
- Ryan CorcoranBoston$11.4M
- Joyce LiuCharlestown$10.3M
- Elizabeth LeeBoston$9.8M
- Adnan DahdulSpringfield$8.8M
- Ryan SullivanCambridge$8.5M
- Xiuning leBoston$7.9M
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.