Zohair Ahmed, MD
Gastroenterology · Munster, INNPI 1578826939
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 90 payments — averaging $53.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Olympus America Inc.$811
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$689
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$415
- ERBE USA Inc$352
- Medtronic$303
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3978%
- Food & beverage$4,36990%
- Education$912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $1,260 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 16 | $811 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 12 | $689 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 9 | $415 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 3 | $352 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $303 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $299 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $278 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $200 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $170 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Gilead | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$718
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$343
- SPYGLASS$308
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$308
- Single Use Electrosurgical Hemostatic Forceps$302
- CONMED BILIARY$278
- ERBE$277
- EndoClot SIS$273
- DISPOSABLE EMR KIT$263
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$171
- ESOPHYX$170
- EXALT Model D$163
- EVIS EXERA lll COLONOVIDEOSCOPE$152
- EndoClot PHS$152
- Barrx$151
- AXIOS$145
- GI Genius$138
- RESOLUTION CLIP$128
- ENDOCAPSULE RECORDER$121
- VISIGLIDE$121
How this compares
$4,858 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 323 gastroenterology providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 15 | $1,009 |
| Omeprazole | 42 | $458 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 17 | $255 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 29 | $216 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Munster
- Anoop AppannagariMunster$120K
- Priti NuthakkiMunster$17K
- Gene ChangMunster$14K
- Michelle SrisuwananukornMunster$13K
- Navin KumarMunster$12K
- Monika FischerIndianapolis$2.8M
- Douglas RexIndianapolis$2.3M
- Pankaj PatelSouth Bend$2.3M
- David PoundIndianapolis$1.4M
- Naga ChalasaniIndianapolis$1.1M
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.