Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ZAVIER SHAWKAT AHMED

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Nephrology

NPI
1255677134
CMS profile
1392718
Location
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA

General Payments · PY2019–2024

$1,486.64

  • Reported across 44 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$443.50

15 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $443.50 15

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $104.02 1
PY2021 $211.99 2
PY2022 $169.79 5
PY2023 $557.34 21
PY2024 $443.50 15

Payment records · PY2024 (15)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 2019202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Ardelyx, Inc. $25.31 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146667348 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20.55 03/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104585942 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $22.66 04/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104587754 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.38 06/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104627050 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.66 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105680297 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $24.40 10/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086167400 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $22.03 11/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086243194 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $22.61 05/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117936561 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $23.69 05/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117936563 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $29.53 04/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086751783 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $34.16 08/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086751801 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $18.94 10/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086751813 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $121.92 03/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096744600 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $21.09 06/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118849704 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $21.57 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118849706 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

One page per canonical provider; split Profile_IDs are merged via Associated_Covered_Recipient_Profile_ID_1/_2 from the Covered Recipient Profile Supplement.

Corrections to the substance of a record route to CMS through its review-and-dispute process; errors in how this site mirrors or displays a record route to us. Both paths are described in Methodology & Data.