Ahmed Ghaleb, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Little Rock, ARNPI 1104916675
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.5%.
Across 139 payments — averaging $48.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$2K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$897
- AbbVie$470
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$448
- Boston Scientific$386
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,13547%
- Food & beverage$3,56853%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 6 | $1,577 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 7 | $1,053 |
| Stryker | 5 | $897 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 28 | $470 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 5 | $448 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $386 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 18 | $345 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 14 | $223 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $182 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $143 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $130 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $103 |
| Novartis | 6 | $101 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Superion ISS$830
- OPTABLATE$798
- Minuteman$138
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$120
- APONVIE$115
- SPRINT PNS System$103
How this compares
$6,703 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 29 interventional pain medicine providers in Arkansas.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 79 | $15,189 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 685 | $8,931 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 91 | $6,359 |
| Gabapentin | 304 | $3,973 |
| Celecoxib | 197 | $3,486 |
| Pregabalin | 137 | $2,695 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 147 | $2,278 |
| Lidocaine | 20 | $2,117 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 307 | $1,912 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 203 | $1,652 |
| Baclofen | 233 | $1,252 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 139 | $1,137 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 73 | $1,065 |
| Fentanyl | 12 | $1,029 |
| Topiramate | 103 | $920 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Little Rock
- Amir QureshiLittle Rock$14K
- Majid SaleemLittle Rock$5K
- Gary FrankowskiLittle Rock$5K
- Brent WalkerLittle Rock$4K
- Angela LovettLittle Rock$572
- Sameer JainBryant$56K
- Ryan KrafftMountain Home$51K
- Robert CannonFayetteville$15K
- Brett WhatcottFort Smith$10K
- Mohammad EldeebFort Smith$9K
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.