Bashar Ahmed, MD
Pain Medicine · Santa Rosa, CANPI 1548675663
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $74.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$1K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$922
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$753
- Medtronic$494
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,81957%
- Food & beverage$3,70443%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 14 | $2,300 |
| Abbott | 24 | $1,695 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 5 | $1,191 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 9 | $922 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 13 | $753 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $494 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $417 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 3 | $311 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 8 | $166 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $102 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Merck | 2 | $41 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $21 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,925
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,134
- mild Device Kit$1,109
- Superion ISS$595
- SPRINT PNS System$364
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$300
- CFNS StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$189
- SCS FreedonSpinal Cord Stimulator$189
- Protege Family of SCS IPGs$165
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$104
How this compares
$8,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
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.
Other pain medicine in Santa Rosa
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Michael YangSanta Rosa$666K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Xiang QianRedwood City$941K
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.