Has Ali Gardezi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,603 in general payments to Ali Gardezi, MD across 37 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ali Gardezi, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ali Gardezi, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ali Gardezi, MD

Nephrology · Fitchburg, WINPI 1356506794

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (28.8%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sonavex, Inc. at 45.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,877 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $446 in 2025. Among nephrology clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$15,603in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $421.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sonavex, Inc.$7K
Medtronic$6K
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$1K
Mozarc Medical US LLC$342
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$287
Penumbra, Inc.$267
plus $253 from 2 others

$2,250in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $2250.00 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.

Sonavex, Inc.$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,95025%
Speaking & faculty fees$3,90025%
Travel & lodging$4,49329%
Food & beverage$2,26114%
Education$9996%

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
Sonavex, Inc.	2	$7,050
Medtronic(3 entities)	20	$6,076
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	7	$1,328
Mozarc Medical US LLC	2	$342
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.	2	$287
Penumbra, Inc.	2	$267
Venturemed Group, Inc.	1	$133
AV Medical Technologies Ltd.	1	$120

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

$15,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 173 nephrology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$121,275

Medicare patients

246

Services billed

865

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide	16	$45,371
Lanthanum Carbonate	11	$12,554
EliquisApixaban	11	$6,111
Sevelamer Carbonate	41	$4,952
Calcium Acetate	25	$1,688
Bumetanide	25	$1,483
Potassium Chloride	22	$528
Furosemide	56	$524
Lisinopril	21	$353
Calcitriol	13	$203
Carvedilol	37	$164
Metoprolol Succinate	18	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other nephrology in Fitchburg

Micah ChanFitchburg$80K
Fahad AzizFitchburg$17K
Tripti SinghFitchburg$13K
Sarah PanzerFitchburg$5K
Kevin RegnerMilwaukee$246K
Rosanna RanieriKenosha$84K
Rishi KoraGlendale$57K
Manohar AhujaMilwaukee$35K
Ashraf El MeanawyMilwaukee$30K
Anna GaddyMilwaukee$28K

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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.

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