Ijaz Ahmad, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1902895238
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 690 payments — averaging $23.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Amgen$1K
- Novartis$1K
- Merck$1K
- plus $7K from 40 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$15,99599%
- Education$1631%
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.
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$919
- Confirm Rx$372
- AVEIR$324
- ACUMED$290
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$267
- Avalus$183
- Xperience$155
- BlastX$155
- SurgX$155
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$149
- OsteoMed$145
- FASENRA$132
- Diamondback Peripheral$115
How this compares
$16,158 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 129 | $159,168 |
| EliquisApixaban | 144 | $156,413 |
| Diclofenac Potassium | 30 | $89,450 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 80 | $87,329 |
| Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate | 19 | $84,914 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 81 | $80,564 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 65 | $80,308 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 58 | $78,188 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 48 | $58,702 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 63 | $58,400 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 33 | $56,450 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 56 | $53,224 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 37 | $48,084 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 32 | $34,320 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 27 | $32,346 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta | $1,409 | $223,813182 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr | $1,029 | $172,965156 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $947 | $156,413144 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Symbicort | $3,055 | $144,260162 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,160 | $80,30865 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $170 | $78,18858 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $519 | $56,45033 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $562 | $53,22456 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $331 | $32,34627 claims |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi, Edarbyclor | $112 | $17,76930 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33 | $276 | $9,55311 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 85th percentile of 2,302 cardiovascular disease providers in New York.
Other cardiovascular disease in Brooklyn
- Ronald WhartonBrooklyn$1.1M
- Ozgen DoganBrooklyn$404K
- Warren WexelmanBrooklyn$396K
- James MinNew York$41.1M
- Robert RosensonNew York$6.9M
- Roxana MehranNew York$6.4M
- Roger HajjarNew York$5.2M
- Philippe GenereuxNew York$4.4M
- Vijay IyerAmherst$4.3M
- Gregg StoneNew York$3.7M
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.