Bashar Attar
Gastroenterology · Chicago, ILNPI 1790795664
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 178 payments — averaging $678.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$118K
- Cook Medical LLC$843
- AbbVie$257
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$238
- Ambu A/s$200
- Eisai Inc.$178
- plus $612 from 7 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $247.94 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.
- Eli Lilly$744
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,6906%
- Speaking & faculty fees$90,11875%
- Travel & lodging$17,64815%
- Food & beverage$5,2514%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 150 | $118,449 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 13 | $843 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $257 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $238 |
| Ambu A/s | 1 | $200 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $178 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $113 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $70 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $27 |
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
$120,777 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 787 gastroenterology providers in Illinois.
Other gastroenterology in Chicago
- David RubinChicago$3.6M
- Stephen HanauerChicago$2.9M
- Parambir DulaiChicago$2.2M
- Ikuo HiranoChicago$1.8M
- Steven FlammChicago$1.6M
- Darren BrennerChicago$1.1M
- Russell CohenChicago$985K
- Mary RinellaChicago$938K
- Emanuelle BellaguardaChicago$868K
- Saurabh KapurChicago$867K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.