Ala Albazzaz, MD
Geriatric Medicine · Glen Ellyn, ILNPI 1134362833
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1 payment — averaging $12.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$13
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$13100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$13 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 147 geriatric medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 17 | $14,728 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 12 | $12,354 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 29 | $1,290 |
| Pro Comfort Alcohol PadsAlcohol Antiseptic Pads | 17 | $992 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 112 | $743 |
| Alcohol PadsAlcohol Antiseptic Pads | 19 | $673 |
| Bisoprolol Fumarate | 17 | $596 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 60 | $592 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 39 | $535 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 17 | $448 |
| Levetiracetam | 15 | $431 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 34 | $398 |
| Omeprazole | 46 | $392 |
| Potassium Chloride | 28 | $342 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $341 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other geriatric medicine in Glen Ellyn
- Raj ShahChicago$1.8M
- Xinqi DongChicago$214K
- Michael LimArlington Heights$29K
- Patricia BurkeChicago$28K
- Hima AtluriDecatur$21K
- Carlos Mella-PicelChicago$9K
- Rekha SharmaHazel Crest$8K
- Beata StykaPalos Heights$6K
- Azeem AhsanCrest Hill$6K
- Adeela CheemaChicago$5K
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.