Kalim Ahmed, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Hagerstown, MDNPI 1194709204
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 396 payments — averaging $33.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$7K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- GSK$1K
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$391
- Grifols USA, LLC$359
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$320
- plus $3K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00830%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,03015%
- Travel & lodging$2082%
- Food & beverage$7,10853%
- Education$1051%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 51 | $7,093 |
| AstraZeneca | 68 | $1,367 |
| GSK | 98 | $1,120 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 22 | $391 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 22 | $359 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 6 | $320 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 10 | $273 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 2 | $268 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $260 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $182 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $165 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 6 | $150 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $119 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 6 | $117 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 3 | $80 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 4 | $80 |
| Amgen | 4 | $79 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $72 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Gilead | 4 | $55 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Novartis | 2 | $41 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $37 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Resmed Corp | 2 | $30 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 2 | $25 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- OFEV$6,282
- Inspire$215
- FASENRA$119
- SYMBICORT$119
- BEVESPI AEROSPHERE$119
How this compares
$13,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 297 pulmonary disease providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 132 | $158,559 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 126 | $77,131 |
| NucalaMepolizumab | 15 | $55,332 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 85 | $51,641 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 84 | $46,465 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 55 | $41,249 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 55 | $34,353 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 29 | $21,651 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 54 | $18,114 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 21 | $10,091 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 36 | $9,068 |
| EliquisApixaban | 15 | $8,500 |
| Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate | 12 | $6,765 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 21 | $6,330 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 20 | $5,628 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Nucala, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $1,120 | $407,243496 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat | $7,093 | $82,368122 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere | $1,367 | $21,65129 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $182 | $8,50015 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 75th percentile of 297 pulmonary disease providers in Maryland.
Other pulmonary disease in Hagerstown
- Richard BernsteinAnnapolis$5.7M
- Alan SchwartzBaltimore$1.6M
- Sonye DanoffBaltimore$1.5M
- Michael DrummondBaltimore$1.4M
- da Wei LiaoBethesda$1.3M
- Paul HassounBaltimore$1.3M
- Lonny YarmusBaltimore$1.2M
- Jonathan SevranskyBaltimore$971K
- Robert ChasseSalisbury$788K
- Robert WiseBaltimore$761K
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.