Saud Ahmed, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Aurora, ILNPI 1255592655
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (57.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Penumbra, Inc. at 35.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,260 and has fallen 82.3% since, to $578 in 2025.
Across 82 payments — averaging $85.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$981
- Stryker$659
- Argon Medical Devices, Inc.$486
- Nevro Corp.$438
- Medtronic$325
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95014%
- Travel & lodging$2,01629%
- Food & beverage$4,07158%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 20 | $2,514 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $981 |
| Stryker | 12 | $659 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 3 | $486 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $438 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $325 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 2 | $277 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $215 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 4 | $192 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $179 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 2 | $168 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Abbott | 2 | $81 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $47 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $41 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Venturemed Group, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Indigo System$1,942
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$927
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$927
- CLEANER$450
- Senza$395
- SPINEJACK$279
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$277
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$179
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$143
- SYMPHONY CATHETER$143
- Penumbra System$142
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis$135
- POD$126
- (6554) Peripheral Vascular Undivided$125
- ARTIX MT$107
How this compares
$7,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 197 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Illinois.
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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 vascular & interventional radiology in Aurora
- Suveer TatineniAurora$38K
- Riad SalemChicago$2.3M
- Kush DesaiChicago$1M
- Robert LewandowskiChicago$954K
- Christopher MolvarChicago$850K
- Sreekumar MadasseryChicago$459K
- Bulent ArslanChicago$300K
- Paramjit ChopraHinsdale$284K
- Rotimi JohnsonElgin$232K
- Sreenivas ReddyHinsdale$172K
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.