Nida Ahmed
Pulmonary Disease · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1043663198
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 79 payments — averaging $25.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$912
- Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$149
- Boehringer Ingelheim$147
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$98
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$81
- United Therapeutics Corporation$54
- plus $575 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,94797%
- Education$673%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 40 | $912 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $147 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 2 | $98 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $54 |
| Novartis | 3 | $53 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Amgen | 2 | $45 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| GSK | 2 | $30 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $26 |
| Gilead | 1 | $24 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
| Covidien LP | 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.
How this compares
$2,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 248 pulmonary disease providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 166 | $217,512 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 66 | $84,356 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 59 | $37,043 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 13 | $13,293 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 11 | $13,260 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 17 | $10,505 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 33 | $7,690 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 194 | $6,404 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 93 | $4,245 |
| Roflumilast | 26 | $3,469 |
| Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 25 | $2,603 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 44 | $498 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 46 | $333 |
| Prednisone | 91 | $254 |
| Azithromycin | 20 | $235 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $30 | $230,805179 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat | $147 | $97,61677 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $912 | $10,50517 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 248 pulmonary disease providers in Colorado.
Other pulmonary disease in Colorado Springs
- Ronald RainsColorado Springs$263K
- Christopher MerrickColorado Springs$149K
- Timothy RummelColorado Springs$108K
- Andrew BoulosColorado Springs$14K
- David SchwartzAurora$6.7M
- Michael WechslerDenver$3.6M
- David BadeschAurora$2.2M
- Jennifer Taylor CousarDenver$1.4M
- Evans Fernandez PerezDenver$1.3M
- Ronald BalkissoonDenver$1.2M
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.