Naheed Akhter, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Downers Grove, ILNPI 1861555179
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $17.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$426
- Pfizer$239
- Baxter Healthcare$150
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$120
- Merck$113
- Avion Pharmaceuticals$107
- plus $659 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,814100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 23 | $426 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $239 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $150 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 7 | $120 |
| Merck | 8 | $113 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 8 | $107 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 7 | $95 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $56 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Medicem Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Acessa Health Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 1 | $14 |
| Insulet Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Dysis Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,814 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,732 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 12 | $708 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 25 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Downers Grove
- Phyllis MarxSkokie$2M
- Mary Jenkins VogelEvanston$886K
- Charles MillerNaperville$603K
- Lee ShulmanChicago$577K
- Anne SchaibleOak Lawn$546K
- Christopher OlsonNaperville$530K
- Laura PearlmanSkokie$426K
- Maria TamChicago$378K
- Amy WhitakerChicago$351K
- Gregory UrsinoChicago$242K
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.