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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $40,485 in general payments to Saleem Ahmad, MD across 194 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 Saleem 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 Saleem 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.

Saleem Ahmad, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Kettering, OHNPI 1013973429

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.3%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 39.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,558, 3.0 times the $3,856 reported in 2019.

$40,485in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 194 payments — averaging $208.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$16K
Boston Scientific$15K
Philips North America LLC$7K
Abbott$2K
Atricure, Inc.$90

$80,454in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $4732.59 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.

Boston Scientific$80K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$6,30016%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,0505%
Travel & lodging$21,98754%
Food & beverage$10,14825%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	107	$16,160
Boston Scientific	56	$15,282
Philips North America LLC	8	$7,150
Abbott	18	$1,803
Atricure, Inc.	5	$90

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.

CVX-300$5,065
Farapulse$5,017
Arctic Front$2,312
(9520) IGT Devices Undivided$1,754
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$1,109
AMPLATZER AMULET$898
ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE$815
SQ RX PULSE GENERATOR$812
GENERAL - THERAPIES$789
DIAMONDTEMP BIDIRECTIONAL ABLATION CATHETER$779
CARDIOBLATE CRYOFLEX$743
IGT Devices Und$287
Micra$270
MitraClip$270
WATCHMAN Access System$242
NA$160
EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$154
CryoConsole$152
RHYTHMIA$116
AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$103

How this compares

$40,485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 159 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$324,248

Medicare patients

775

Services billed

4,302

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
EliquisApixaban	889	$967,592
XareltoRivaroxaban	290	$310,170
Dofetilide	768	$132,334
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	65	$77,876
MultaqDronedarone Hcl	12	$31,764
Coreg CrCarvedilol Phosphate	11	$10,384
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	240	$9,592
Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate	36	$6,250
SotalolSotalol Hcl	201	$5,386
Metoprolol Succinate	306	$4,121
Flecainide Acetate	62	$3,636
Mexiletine Hcl	29	$3,296
Carvedilol	374	$3,218
Atorvastatin Calcium	263	$2,189
Potassium Chloride	145	$2,152

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Kettering

Anish AminColumbus$1.1M
Walid SalibaCleveland$511K
Mohamed KanjBeachwood$442K
John HummelColumbus$275K
Bruce WilkoffCleveland$213K
Alexandru CosteaCincinnati$188K
Auroa BadinColumbus$188K
Gaurang GandhiCincinnati$179K
Ralph AugostiniColumbus$174K
Dina SparanoMayfield Heights$147K

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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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