Asim Ali
Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1821047218
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.7% of the total across 71 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 11.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $572 and has fallen 90.2% since, to $56 in 2025.
Across 71 payments — averaging $17.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$143
- Pfizer$128
- AbbVie$127
- Johnson & Johnson$127
- Tosoh Bioscience, Inc.$112
- Boehringer Ingelheim$110
- plus $463 from 12 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $3172.31 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.
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$34K
- Genentech, Inc.$27K
- EMD Serono, Inc.$6K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$3K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,09991%
- Gifts$1129%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $143 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $128 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $127 |
| Tosoh Bioscience, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $110 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 7 | $99 |
| Novartis | 4 | $78 |
| Bayer | 2 | $42 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| GSK | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TSH, ST AIA-PACK$112
How this compares
$1,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Other internal medicine in Saint Louis
- Vinay KamatSaint Louis$191K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$182K
- Tracy NorfleetSaint Louis$132K
- Paul OlivoSaint Louis$98K
- William SummersSaint Louis$93K
- Mark ScheperleSaint Louis$89K
- Shiyang ZhangSaint Louis$45K
- Bernard McGuireSaint Louis$37K
- Daniel GaitanSaint Louis$34K
- Nathan FarkasSaint Louis$33K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.