Faiz Ahmad, MD
Neurological Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1285876946
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $40,617 of the $46,702 with a category attached, or 87.0%. Stryker accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $21,521 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $2,472 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $1086.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$29K
- Mirus, LLC$9K
- Medtronic$7K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- United Orthopedics LLC$323
- Arthrex$288
- plus $265 from 5 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $51,134 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.
- Vertex$102K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$40,61787%
- Travel & lodging$5,09011%
- Food & beverage$9952%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 20 | $28,923 |
| Mirus, LLC | 4 | $8,750 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $6,612 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $1,542 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $323 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $288 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $143 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| BD | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 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.
- TRITANIUM$11,825
- AERO$11,680
- ES2$11,680
- SERRATO$11,680
- OPUS$11,680
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$8,750
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$8,750
- NIAGARA LATERAL ACCESS SYSTEM$6,500
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$4,013
- SONOPET IQ$2,600
- XIA 3$2,000
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,517
- CORE$975
- T2 STRATOSPHERE$950
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$645
- ALIF$143
- EVEREST MI$142
How this compares
$46,702 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 133 | $1,150 |
| Methocarbamol | 37 | $270 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $152 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $136 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $116 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Miami
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Michael WangMiami$2.2M
- Wilson AsforaMiami$1.3M
- Steven VanniMiami$1.1M
- Timur UrakovMiami$652K
- Samuel GoldsmitMiami$519K
- Robert StarkeMiami$302K
- Ian CoteMiami$231K
- Michael IvanMiami$225K
- James GuestMiami$155K
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.