Loba Alam, MD
Hospitalist · Summit, NJNPI 1407351638
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,762 of the $4,379 with a category attached, or 85.9%. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among hospitalist clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 115 payments — averaging $38.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$793
- AstraZeneca$376
- Boston Scientific$296
- Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$272
- Amgen$269
- Novartis$256
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,76286%
- Education$61714%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 14 | $793 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $376 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $296 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $272 |
| Amgen | 12 | $269 |
| Novartis | 9 | $256 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $247 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 4 | $221 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $220 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $220 |
| Merck | 7 | $158 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $116 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $93 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $92 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $72 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $69 |
| Bayer | 3 | $67 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $57 |
| Procyrion, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 3 | $54 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $45 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $31 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $25 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$418
- CARDIOMEMS$145
- FFRct$134
- FUROSCIX$126
- XARELTO$125
- LOKELMA$122
- Hillrom - Carnation Ambulatory Monitor$116
- NEXLIZET$116
- NEXLETOL$116
- LEQVIO$107
- WATCHMAN Access System$100
How this compares
$4,379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 567 hospitalist providers in New Jersey.
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 hospitalist in Summit
- Mohammed UsmanToms River$33K
- Justin BaptistAtlantic City$23K
- Jhonsua Jimenez AriasMorristown$15K
- Ahmed HassaninMorristown$15K
- Mohamed BakrAtlantic City$8K
- Jason NehmadNeptune$7K
- Rebecca ZweiflerMorristown$6K
- Scott KaufmanMount Holly$6K
- Kunal ParmarPompton Plains$6K
- Sameh GirgisNeptune$6K
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.