Has Muhammad Afzal, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,574 in general payments to Muhammad Afzal, MD across 85 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Muhammad Afzal, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Muhammad Afzal, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Muhammad Afzal, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Gahanna, OHNPI 1417240326

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (46.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,474 and has fallen 51.0% since, to $5,131 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $17,892.

$20,574in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $242.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$9K
Medtronic$5K
Boston Scientific$2K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$2K
Acutus Medical, Inc.$102

$340,163in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 212 payments — averaging $1604.54 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$254K
Abbott$54K
Biotronik Inc.$32K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,28735%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,2506%
Travel & lodging$9,46946%
Food & beverage$2,56812%

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	23	$9,234
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$5,441
Boston Scientific	17	$2,128
Biosense Webster, Inc.	10	$1,869
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$1,800
Acutus Medical, Inc.	1	$102

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.

EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$3,793
Therapy Ablation Catheter$3,481
Carto 3$1,552
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,131
Pacemakers$922
Watchman$831
GENERAL - THERAPIES$586
Micra$259
Carto 3 System$200
EMBLEM S ICD ELECTRODE DELIVERY SYSTEM$175
Confirm Rx$135
EMBLEM$110

How this compares

$20,574 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 159 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$267,884

Medicare patients

1,481

Services billed

2,346

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
EliquisApixaban	193	$228,755
XareltoRivaroxaban	32	$44,929
Dofetilide	54	$10,055
Mexiletine Hcl	12	$2,932
Amiodarone Hcl	107	$2,389
Flecainide Acetate	48	$1,669
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	48	$1,587
SotalolSotalol Hcl	72	$1,142
Metoprolol Succinate	52	$769
Metoprolol Tartrate	19	$167
Potassium Chloride	13	$167
Warfarin Sodium	14	$87

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Gahanna

Justin WeinerGahanna$35K
Anish AminColumbus$1.1M
Walid SalibaCleveland$511K
Mohamed KanjBeachwood$442K
John HummelColumbus$275K
Bruce WilkoffCleveland$213K
Alexandru CosteaCincinnati$188K
Auroa BadinColumbus$188K
Gaurang GandhiCincinnati$179K
Ralph AugostiniColumbus$174K

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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.

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