Syed Alam
Internal Medicine · Kansas City, MONPI 1659867786
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $47.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Cook Incorporated$800
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$512
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$421
- Gilead$346
- Ardelyx, Inc.$323
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$80013%
- Food & beverage$5,51387%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 48 | $1,842 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $800 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $512 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $421 |
| Gilead | 3 | $346 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 6 | $323 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $183 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $180 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $171 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $161 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $157 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $147 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $130 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $125 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $121 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $96 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $35 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $32 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
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.
How this compares
$6,313 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 33 | $386 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 15 | $307 |
| Famotidine | 18 | $259 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 11 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Kansas City
- Craig DietzKansas City$4M
- Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
- Kevin SuttmoellerKansas City$198K
- Karla Houston-GrayKansas City$24K
- Timothy SmithSaint Peters$21.4M
- Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
- Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
- Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$575K
- Danish JabbarSaint Louis$510K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.