Has Zameer Abedin received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $82,631 in general payments to Zameer Abedin across 255 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Zameer Abedin did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Zameer Abedin come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Zameer Abedin

Internal Medicine · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1518491125

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by grants: $50,415 of the $82,631 with a category attached, or 61.0%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 35.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $41,224 and has fallen 65.5% since, to $14,235 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in UT 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.

$82,631in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 255 payments — averaging $324.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$29K
Boston Scientific$22K
Abbott$13K
Biotronik Inc.$8K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$7K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$2K
plus $923 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Grants$50,41561%
Travel & lodging$20,15824%
Food & beverage$11,35314%
Education$7061%

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
Medtronic	39	$29,432
Boston Scientific	36	$21,695
Abbott	47	$13,249
Biotronik Inc.	39	$7,917
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	47	$7,265
Biosense Webster, Inc.	38	$2,150
Inari Medical, Inc.	3	$383
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$129
Atricure, Inc.	2	$126
Amgen	1	$118
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$98
Cook Medical LLC	1	$70

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

$82,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 496 internal medicine providers in Utah.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Sucralfate	13	$166
Omeprazole	29	$166

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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