Azazuddin Ahmed, MD
Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1073732459
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,130 of the $2,282 with a category attached, or 93.4%. Novo Nordisk accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,153, more than ten times the $27 reported in 2019.
Across 8 payments — averaging $285.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- Amgen$27
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$23
- Lilly USA, LLC$21
- Johnson & Johnson$16
Across 667 payments — averaging $1364.07 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.
- Novo Nordisk AS$348K
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$329K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$83K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$80K
- AstraZeneca$41K
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$28K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,13093%
- Food & beverage$874%
- Education$653%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $2,195 |
| Amgen | 1 | $27 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$2,282 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal 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.
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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.