Shoaib Ahmed Chowdhury, MD
Nephrology · Cadillac, MINPI 1063438018
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 246 payments — averaging $27.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Amgen$864
- Baxter Healthcare$862
- Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$453
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$410
- Bayer$325
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95214%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2003%
- Food & beverage$5,24878%
- Education$3345%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 47 | $1,663 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 45 | $864 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $862 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 26 | $453 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 19 | $410 |
| Bayer | 16 | $325 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 14 | $322 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $279 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $251 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 9 | $177 |
| GSK | 3 | $164 |
| Novartis | 8 | $159 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 7 | $114 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $88 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 4 | $52 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $49 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $24 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Renal - Revaclear$862
- FARXIGA$643
- Veltassa$200
- ULTOMIRIS$103
How this compares
$6,734 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 213 | $208,526 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 103 | $143,093 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 63 | $86,743 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 84 | $77,356 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 49 | $58,996 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 55 | $39,021 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 16 | $39,021 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 41 | $36,933 |
| VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide | 13 | $30,954 |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | 112 | $21,048 |
| AuryxiaFerric Citrate | 11 | $12,970 |
| VeltassaPatiromer Calcium Sorbitex | 12 | $10,818 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 29 | $5,167 |
| Bumetanide | 69 | $4,611 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 630 | $3,853 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma | $1,663 | $247,547268 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $88 | $229,836166 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $279 | $77,35684 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $325 | $58,99649 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $24 | $39,02116 claims |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro | $114 | $30,95413 claims |
| Akebia Therapeutics IncAuryxia | $52 | $12,97011 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 325 nephrology providers in Michigan.
Other nephrology in Cadillac
- Matthias KretzlerAnn Arbor$7.8M
- Fahd Al-SaghirPontiac$3.9M
- Kiran SaraiyaWarren$3.1M
- Alexander YevzlinAnn Arbor$1.3M
- Christopher ProvenzanoShelby Township$1.2M
- Joel TopfRoseville$1.1M
- Jennifer OdrenSaint Clair Shores$620K
- Zeenat BhatAnn Arbor$592K
- Ahmed AqeelKalamazoo$363K
- Claudia ZacharekSaginaw$351K
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.