Ahmed Shatla
Neurological Surgery · New Hartford, NYNPI 1558351601
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,940 of the $5,555 with a category attached, or 88.9%. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,602 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $97 in 2022.
Across 367 payments — averaging $15.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$1K
- Novartis$606
- Biogen$571
- AbbVie$569
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$225
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$216
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4668%
- Food & beverage$4,94089%
- Education$1493%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 8 | $1,149 |
| Novartis | 48 | $606 |
| Biogen | 32 | $571 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 98 | $569 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 10 | $225 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 10 | $216 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 16 | $201 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $199 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 4 | $196 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $153 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 27 | $141 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 13 | $108 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $99 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $96 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $90 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $77 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 4 | $69 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 5 | $60 |
| CSL Behring | 3 | $56 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 3 | $49 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
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.
- VNS Therapy$1,057
- Vumerity$125
How this compares
$5,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 446 neurological surgery providers in New York.
Other neurological surgery in New Hartford
- Aziz Basem QandahNew Hartford$1.1M
- Ryan DenhaeseWilliamsville$1.9M
- J MoccoNew York$1.6M
- Adnan SiddiquiWilliamsville$1.5M
- Leo HopkinsBuffalo$1.2M
- Alejandro BerensteinNew York$1.1M
- Darryl LauNew York$915K
- Mark BilskyNew York$903K
- John PollinaWilliamsville$661K
- Michael GroffRochester$559K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.