Ryan Ahern
Internal Medicine · Seattle, WANPI 1457615825
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 2 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 73.6% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 2 payments — averaging $46.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$68
- Pfizer$24
Across 2 payments — averaging $3,649,247 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$7.3M
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$92100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $68 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $24 |
How this compares
$92 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,038 internal medicine providers in Washington.
Other internal medicine in Seattle
- Peter ShalitSeattle$1M
- Scott RamseySeattle$230K
- Michael CairnsSeattle$144K
- Peiqing QianSeattle$117K
- Kevin ChungSeattle$35K
- David DaleSeattle$35K
- Catherine BenzigerSeattle$13K
- Christopher DoddSeattle$12K
- Dedra BuchwaldSeattle$11K
- Thao NguyenSeattle$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.