Syed Bukhari
Internal Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1821440850
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $164,506 of the $164,553 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Pfizer accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $80,000 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $48 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 6 payments — averaging $27,426 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$160K
- Medtronic$5K
What the payments were for
- Grants$164,506100%
- Food & beverage$480%
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.
How this compares
$164,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $655 |
| Furosemide | 11 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Cleveland
- Cyrus HarrisCleveland$726K
- Marina MagreyCleveland$312K
- Joshua LonginowCleveland$241K
- Emad MansoorCleveland$219K
- Vadim KoshkinCleveland$159K
- Suresh Kumar BalasubramanianCleveland$148K
- Christine Tanaka-EspositoCleveland$123K
- Carla HarwellCleveland$75K
- Amr MohamedCleveland$72K
- Adriano TonelliCleveland$71K
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.