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

SHEIKH AHMED

NPI
1457435745
CMS profile
202352
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$17,141.62

  • Reported across 117 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$440.53

17 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 $420.91 16
Education $19.62 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $3,808.59 14
PY2019 $359.79 8
PY2020 $207.94 7
PY2021 $10,812.41 24
PY2022 $720.71 23
PY2023 $791.65 24
PY2024 $440.53 17

Payment records · PY2024 (17)

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

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 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
Abbott Laboratories $22.72 01/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125376674 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $120.35 04/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125376678 CMS
AGEPHA Pharma FZ LLC $16.12 06/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111015638 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.05 01/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115412598 CMS
Amgen Inc. $13.50 10/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117490562 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $19.62 06/05/2024 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086159242 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $14.95 06/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086255250 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16.42 10/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086251268 CMS
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. $14.96 08/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1129425428 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $20.00 11/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115801489 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $24.81 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135407518 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $14.68 06/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135424613 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $25.08 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135407520 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $20.66 12/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135347594 CMS
Optinose US, Inc. $27.40 08/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142183320 CMS
PFIZER INC. $27.94 06/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131706073 CMS
Radius Health, Inc. $25.27 10/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089992346 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
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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