Zarqa Imdad, MD
Infectious Disease · Elgin, ILNPI 1689660995
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1 payment — averaging $11.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$12
What the payments were for
- Education$12100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$12 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 368 infectious disease providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | 32 | $139,361 |
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 14 | $5,354 |
| Meropenem | 20 | $5,086 |
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 12 | $3,530 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 24 | $2,953 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 62 | $2,881 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 34 | $2,431 |
| Cefadroxil | 110 | $1,807 |
| Ampicillin Sodium | 11 | $1,606 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 16 | $1,521 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 20 | $454 |
| Ethambutol Hcl | 14 | $434 |
| Cefdinir | 17 | $418 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 14 | $407 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $367 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other infectious disease in Elgin
- Robert TiballiElgin$19K
- Kathleen MullaneChicago$4.4M
- Gregory HuhnChicago$3M
- Catherine CreticosChicago$1.7M
- Babafemi TaiwoChicago$1.4M
- Shivanjali ShankaranChicago$1.1M
- Frank PalellaChicago$987K
- Kamaljit SinghChicago$971K
- Richard NovakChicago$960K
- Renslow ShererChicago$821K
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.