Umar Sheikh
Dermatology · Chicago, ILNPI 1558981274
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 161 payments — averaging $64.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$659
- Sanofi$644
- Pfizer$446
- Incyte Corporation$430
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$398
- plus $4K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,65216%
- Food & beverage$8,60082%
- Education$2022%
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 | 45 | $4,226 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $659 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $644 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $446 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $430 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 4 | $398 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $394 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $384 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $383 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 5 | $330 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $265 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $232 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 8 | $226 |
| Novartis | 9 | $209 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $206 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 4 | $190 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $157 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $133 |
| LNHC, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $98 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $80 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Organon | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$10,454 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 606 dermatology providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tacrolimus | 14 | $1,389 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 22 | $612 |
| Ketoconazole | 30 | $429 |
| Mupirocin | 44 | $265 |
| Minoxidil | 28 | $212 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Chicago
- Raj ChovatiyaChicago$3.7M
- Peter LioChicago$2.5M
- Elizabeth KiracofeChicago$1.6M
- Walter LiszewskiChicago$1.2M
- Maria ColavincenzoChicago$627K
- Carolyn JacobChicago$606K
- Roopal KunduChicago$498K
- Sarah ChamlinChicago$415K
- Omer IbrahimChicago$313K
- Joaquin BrievaChicago$311K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.