Basil Abu-El-Haija, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Springfield, ILNPI 1881825594
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $12,500 of the $14,710 with a category attached, or 85.0%. Medtronic accounts for 94.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $12,632 and has fallen 87.5% since, to $1,575 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $24,482.
Across 34 payments — averaging $432.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$14K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$448
- Atricure, Inc.$286
- Abbott$52
- Boehringer Ingelheim$38
- Boston Scientific$28
- plus $17 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$12,50085%
- Travel & lodging$9186%
- Food & beverage$1,2919%
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) | 15 | $13,841 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 10 | $448 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $286 |
| Abbott | 1 | $52 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $28 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $17 |
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
$14,710 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 158 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Illinois.
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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 | 367 | $295,891 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 76 | $54,808 |
| Dofetilide | 34 | $5,910 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 107 | $4,098 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 116 | $1,882 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 180 | $1,786 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 112 | $518 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 20 | $301 |
| Digoxin | 21 | $263 |
| Carvedilol | 38 | $131 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $37 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Springfield
- Ziad IssaSpringfield$202K
- Abdur Rahman AhmadSpringfield$46K
- Cody WilliamsSpringfield$36K
- Mansour RazminiaPalos Heights$927K
- Mark MetzlEvanston$799K
- Roderick TungChicago$795K
- Bradley KnightChicago$661K
- Gaurav UpadhyayChicago$593K
- Henry HuangGeneva$501K
- Kousik KrishnanNaperville$311K
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.