Palwasha Ahmed, DPM
Podiatrist · Berkeley, CANPI 1669051116
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $90.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Medwest Associates$1K
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$557
- Amgen$427
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$414
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,72818%
- Food & beverage$6,83870%
- Education$1,20012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 46 | $3,606 |
| Medwest Associates | 3 | $1,229 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 6 | $1,215 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $557 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $427 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $414 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $367 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $358 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $306 |
| International Life Sciences | 1 | $226 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 2 | $161 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $160 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 4 | $127 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 4 | $109 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $79 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 3 | $78 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $38 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $22 |
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.
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$888
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$802
- INTEGRA$729
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$435
- INFINITY$431
- Restrata Wound Matrix$414
- KRYSTEXXA$411
- PROstep$342
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$332
- AccelStim$310
- Physio-Stim$310
- VersaWrap$294
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$243
- PRIMATRIX$243
- FLEXBAND$226
- VARIAX$174
- CARTIVA SYNTHETIC CARTILAGE IMPLANT$166
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$150
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$145
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$145
How this compares
$9,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 721 podiatrist providers in California.
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 podiatrist in Berkeley
- Fardin HakakianTarzana$2.8M
- David GuzmanNapa$2.1M
- Shannon RushPleasanton$1.9M
- Babak BaravarianSanta Monica$1.6M
- David ArmstrongLos Angeles$1.4M
- Dean VayserCarlsbad$1.2M
- Robert KleimanCalexico$913K
- Bruce LawrenceOceanside$810K
- Shawn CazzellFresno$788K
- Philip WrotslavskyPoway$269K
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.