Leaque Ahmed, MD
Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1164464251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $22,774 of the $28,225 with a category attached, or 80.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 72.0% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $17,395 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $1,243 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 133 payments — averaging $212.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$20K
- Metrex Research, LLC$4K
- Medtronic$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$617
- Stryker$470
- BD$287
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1250%
- Travel & lodging$1,9037%
- Food & beverage$3,42412%
- Education$22,77481%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 40 | $20,336 |
| Metrex Research, LLC | 1 | $4,195 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $1,167 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 35 | $617 |
| Stryker | 3 | $470 |
| BD | 2 | $287 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $179 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $158 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 4 | $151 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $114 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $76 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $68 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $59 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $49 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $35 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $27 |
| Ormco Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- DAVINCI XI$18,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,151
- LigaSure$801
- Phasix Mesh$229
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$213
- 1788$161
- GATTEX$125
- Signia$105
How this compares
$28,225 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,596 surgery 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.
Other surgery in New York
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
- Megan JenkinsNew York$290K
- Brian JacobNew York$225K
- Robin BlackstoneNew York$174K
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.