Dureshahwar Ali
Internal Medicine · Park Ridge, ILNPI 1578192480
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,173 of the $2,747 with a category attached, or 79.1%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 51 payments — averaging $53.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$489
- Novartis$331
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$272
- Endotronix, Inc.$223
- Johnson & Johnson$183
- Boston Scientific$178
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,17379%
- Education$57321%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 4 | $489 |
| Novartis | 4 | $331 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $272 |
| Endotronix, Inc. | 2 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $183 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $178 |
| Medicure Pharma Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $140 |
| Amgen | 1 | $120 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $104 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $98 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $81 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $77 |
| Merck | 3 | $55 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $49 |
| Bayer | 2 | $49 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $35 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,747 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Other internal medicine in Park Ridge
- David KushnerPark Ridge$39K
- Zaid JabbarOak Brook$1.2M
- Merle DiamondChicago$1.1M
- David ReckerLibertyville$868K
- Yazen JoudehOrland Park$661K
- Robert KushnerChicago$516K
- William CruikshankOak Lawn$431K
- Romeo UrsuaChicago$420K
- Shaina RozellChicago Ridge$366K
- Kristi Tough DesapriWinnetka$344K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.