Asad Al Aboud, MD
Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1760725915
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $37,500 of the $44,314 with a category attached, or 84.6%. Medtronic accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $25,000 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $216 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 76 payments — averaging $583.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$39K
- Philips North America LLC$2K
- Biotronik Inc.$2K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$220
- Boston Scientific$198
- Heartflow, Inc.$124
- plus $238 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$37,50085%
- Travel & lodging$3,4388%
- Food & beverage$3,3758%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $39,465 |
| Philips North America LLC | 13 | $2,194 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 15 | $1,875 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 5 | $220 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $198 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $45 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Abbott | 2 | $42 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
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
$44,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 409 | $403,123 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 136 | $139,602 |
| Dofetilide | 70 | $12,389 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 13 | $11,555 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 287 | $9,184 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 31 | $5,564 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 141 | $5,163 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 246 | $3,963 |
| Droxidopa | 12 | $2,909 |
| Midodrine Hcl | 18 | $2,416 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 18 | $1,813 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 82 | $1,562 |
| Propafenone Hcl ErPropafenone Hcl | 12 | $1,479 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 53 | $1,412 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 51 | $529 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Nashville
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- Temidayo AbeNashville$113K
- Wayne RileyNashville$86K
- Leah CordovezNashville$64K
- Mark KouryNashville$41K
- David HeusinkveldNashville$24K
- Charlotte LohreyNashville$19K
- Malek Al-OmaryNashville$18K
- James GekasNashville$17K
- William LizarragaNashville$16K
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.