Has Rasheed Ahmad, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,742 in general payments to Rasheed Ahmad, MD across 44 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 Rasheed Ahmad, 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 Rasheed Ahmad, 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.

Rasheed Ahmad, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1295732345

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,742in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $198.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

ALON Medical Technology$2K
Sonex Health, Inc.$2K
Acumed LLC$2K
Arthrex$1K
Axogen$980
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$260
plus $380 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,32638%
Food & beverage$3,01634%
Education$2,40027%

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
ALON Medical Technology	4	$2,431
Sonex Health, Inc.	4	$1,618
Acumed LLC	9	$1,577
Arthrex	3	$1,496
Axogen	13	$980
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$260
Boston Scientific	5	$212
Zimmer Biomet	2	$136
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$32

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

$8,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$206,227

Medicare patients

400

Services billed

1,886

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	225	$931
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	75	$583
Gabapentin	13	$104
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	29	$69
Ondansetron Hcl	16	$45
Hydromorphone Hcl	13	$42
Tramadol Hcl	19	$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Baton Rouge

Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3.1M
Jorge IsazaBaton Rouge$1.2M
Kevin McCarthyBaton Rouge$714K
Robert EastonBaton Rouge$394K
Ricardo RodriguezBaton Rouge$262K
Wame WaggenspackBaton Rouge$82K
Shaun AccardoBaton Rouge$52K
Kevin RicheBaton Rouge$33K
William ShermanBaton Rouge$29K
David FerachiBaton Rouge$16K

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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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