Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ZIAD M ASHKAR

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Nephrology

NPI
1356350946
CMS profile
401547
Location
LAFAYETTE, LA

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$18,369.20

  • Reported across 57 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$456.10

18 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

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $456.10 18

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $60.01 2
PY2020 $19.71 1
PY2021 $39.38 2
PY2022 $57.37 1
PY2023 $96.55 5
PY2024 $17,640.08 28
PY2025 $456.10 18

Payment records · PY2025 (18)

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

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Ardelyx, Inc. $22.93 11/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1247832570 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.36 05/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1206482953 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20.80 06/26/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1206562869 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $26.98 09/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1206137016 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $26.82 10/21/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1206668410 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $23.85 02/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1222743273 CMS
Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $36.42 04/10/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1234991634 CMS
Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $17.13 06/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1234991636 CMS
Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. $26.97 12/16/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1234991638 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $20.81 05/23/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1187066789 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $23.93 10/22/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1186987542 CMS
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $31.60 06/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1211949423 CMS
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $20.27 10/20/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1211949425 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $20.37 10/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1238324800 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $27.75 04/03/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200180374 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $32.73 07/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200180384 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $26.46 11/12/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1200060152 CMS
Travere Therapeutics, Inc. $35.92 11/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1244407559 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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