Farhaan Ahmad, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · St Louis, MONPI 1609923598
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 181 payments — averaging $29.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$278
- Novartis$270
- Abbott$265
- Merck$192
- Boston Scientific$179
- plus $720 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00038%
- Food & beverage$3,32362%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 96 | $3,419 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 5 | $278 |
| Novartis | 16 | $270 |
| Abbott | 10 | $265 |
| Merck | 7 | $192 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $179 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $154 |
| Amgen | 9 | $131 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $95 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 8 | $84 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $73 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $27 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $13 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$5,323 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 391 cardiovascular disease providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UptraviSelexipag | 69 | $1,661,850 |
| OpsumitMacitentan | 97 | $1,253,110 |
| EliquisApixaban | 1,194 | $995,062 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 343 | $324,966 |
| VyndamaxTafamidis | 12 | $273,347 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 307 | $258,549 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 195 | $140,482 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 96 | $75,750 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 53 | $69,512 |
| MultaqDronedarone Hcl | 35 | $55,251 |
| Orenitram ErTreprostinil Diolamine | 24 | $43,124 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 67 | $42,955 |
| Tadalafil | 91 | $42,635 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 41 | $22,938 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 76 | $20,672 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit | $278 | $2,914,960166 claims |
| PfizerEliquis, Vyndamax | $154 | $1,268,4091,206 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $270 | $324,966343 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $16 | $258,549307 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $18 | $98,687137 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $84 | $69,51253 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCMultaq | $73 | $55,25135 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 391 cardiovascular disease providers in Missouri.
Other cardiovascular disease in St Louis
- Liwa YounisSt Louis$591K
- Deana MikhalkovaSt Louis$341K
- Tammam Al JoundiSt Louis$239K
- Bassam Al JoundiSt Louis$191K
- Bernard ChaitmanSt Louis$143K
- Paul HauptmanSt Louis$141K
- Mikhail KosiborodKansas City$27.8M
- Mohammad TahirSaint Louis$2.7M
- John SpertusKansas City$2.3M
- Joshua MitchellSaint Louis$1.4M
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.