Soufian Almahameed, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1821187816
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,111 of the $2,987 with a category attached, or 70.7%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 52.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,627, 6.2 times the $264 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $17,892.
Across 26 payments — averaging $114.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$73
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$28
Across 1 payment — averaging $8789.00 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.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$9K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,11171%
- Food & beverage$87629%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 10 | $1,554 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $1,331 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $73 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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.
- AVEIR$1,198
- EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$651
- AURORA EV-ICD MRI SURESCAN$203
- Micra$152
How this compares
$2,987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 159 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Ohio.
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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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 103 | $104,095 |
| EliquisApixaban | 63 | $45,828 |
| Dofetilide | 67 | $10,230 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 21 | $1,396 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 87 | $1,235 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 38 | $221 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 19 | $125 |
| Lisinopril | 11 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Cleveland
- Walid SalibaCleveland$511K
- Bruce WilkoffCleveland$213K
- Judith MackallCleveland$129K
- Albert WaldoCleveland$127K
- Thomas CallahanCleveland$119K
- Ayman HusseinCleveland$98K
- Muhammad ButtCleveland$82K
- Arshneel KocharCleveland$49K
- Shady NakhlaCleveland$47K
- Mauricio ArrudaCleveland$38K
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.