Ami Badami, MD
Medical Oncology · Evanston, ILNPI 1073959565
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $741 of the $865 with a category attached, or 85.6%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $1,059.
Across 18 payments — averaging $48.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$150
- Merck$149
- Bayer$107
- Davol Inc.$105
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$99
- Novartis$51
- plus $205 from 7 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $6237.80 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.
- Seagen Inc.$75K
- Pfizer$41K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$3K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$74186%
- Education$12514%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $150 |
| Merck | 2 | $149 |
| Bayer | 1 | $107 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $99 |
| Novartis | 2 | $51 |
| Abbott | 1 | $36 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $21 |
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.
- KEYTRUDA$123
- Nubeqa$107
- Phasix Mesh$105
How this compares
$865 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 144 medical oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 72 | $786,919 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 38 | $451,355 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 31 | $387,978 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 160 | $308,883 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 11 | $22,952 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $1,345 |
| Prednisone | 85 | $548 |
| Prochlorperazine Maleate | 24 | $440 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 25 | $430 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $231 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $129 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $95 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 12 | $82 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 11 | $33 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BayerNubeqa | $107 | $451,35538 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 45th percentile of 144 medical oncology providers in Illinois.
Other medical oncology in Evanston
- Poornima SahaEvanston$18K
- Daniel ShevrinEvanston$17K
- Bruce BrocksteinEvanston$16K
- Javed ImamEvanston$4K
- Robert MarshEvanston$4K
- Ruta RaoChicago$328K
- Sunandana ChandraChicago$292K
- William GradisharChicago$289K
- Timothy KuzelOrland Park$265K
- Devalingam MahalingamChicago$252K
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.