Mustafa Ahmed, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Birmingham, ALNPI 1306093588
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,218 payments — averaging $2068.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1.1M
- Medtronic$830K
- Boston Scientific$397K
- Philips North America LLC$72K
- Edwards Lifesciences$52K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$47K
- plus $6K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$85,46039%
- Speaking & faculty fees$82,22838%
- Travel & lodging$33,22015%
- Food & beverage$17,4938%
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 | 610 | $1,117,152 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 311 | $829,798 |
| Boston Scientific | 116 | $396,576 |
| Philips North America LLC | 25 | $71,642 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 61 | $51,681 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 37 | $46,619 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $3,439 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $1,690 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 8 | $481 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 31 | $236 |
| Stryker | 1 | $169 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
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.
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$45,580
- CoreValve Evolut$30,524
- Mitra Clip system$21,197
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$18,696
- WATCHMAN Access System$10,532
- MitraClip System$8,359
- VersaCross Access Solution$8,162
- IGT D Coronary$5,310
- MitraClip$4,950
- Dragonfly OCT$750
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$743
- (6574) Coronary Other$544
- Impella$534
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$279
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$235
- (6575) Coronary Undivided$201
- VENACORE THROMBECTOMY CATHETER$169
- (0845) Combo Wire$159
- AlphaVac$138
- AngioVac$134
How this compares
$2,519,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 292 cardiovascular disease providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 48 | $39,327 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 18 | $17,193 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 19 | $16,799 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 21 | $15,022 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 13 | $5,517 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 13 | $3,283 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 63 | $856 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 39 | $584 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 42 | $427 |
| Potassium Chloride | 13 | $422 |
| Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate | 15 | $398 |
| Furosemide | 34 | $134 |
| Methylprednisolone | 16 | $123 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $115 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Birmingham
- Alain BouchardBirmingham$1.9M
- Steven JonesBirmingham$1M
- Pankaj AroraBirmingham$889K
- Vikram AroraBirmingham$810K
- Robert BourgeBirmingham$590K
- Hutton BrantleyBirmingham$316K
- Thomas CawthonBirmingham$306K
- William RogersBirmingham$264K
- Farrell MendelsohnBirmingham$251K
- Jason ThompsonBirmingham$248K
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.