Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ali Ashtari

Nephrology Southfield, MI Medical Doctor

NPI 1477522423 CMS profile 339289

22250 Providence Dr, Suite 406, Southfield, MI 48075

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General payments

$3,093

156 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Ali Ashtari of Southfield, MI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,093 across 156 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 71st percentile of Nephrology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $762 33
2024 General $669 32
2023 General $336 17
2022 General $329 17
2021 General $310 18
2020 General $356 19
2019 General $331 20

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ali Ashtari
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ali Ashtari were reported at $762. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Ali Ashtari Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $331 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $356 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $310 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $329 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $336 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $669 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $762 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Relypsa, Inc. $412 21 payments
  2. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $345 16 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $291 13 payments
  4. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $288 18 payments
  5. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $273 14 payments
  6. Ardelyx, Inc. $273 13 payments
  7. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $124 8 payments
  8. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $120 6 payments
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $118 1 payment
  10. Akebia Therapeutics Inc $90 6 payments
  11. Other $759 40 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,002 151 payments
  2. Education $92 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Kerendia $345 16 payments
  2. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $290 14 payments
  3. IBSRELA $273 13 payments
  4. JARDIANCE $250 13 payments
  5. Parsabiv $245 11 payments
  6. LOKELMA $184 13 payments
  7. Velphoro $124 8 payments
  8. Veltassa Hyperkalemia $122 7 payments
  9. LUPKYNIS $120 6 payments
  10. SYMPLICITY G3 $118 1 payment
  11. Other $878 46 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 15 drugs

Part D claims

319

Median for Emergency Medicine: 88

Drug cost

$72,905

Median for Emergency Medicine: $590

Branded share of claims

27%

Median for Emergency Medicine: 33.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 30 $29,523
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 42 $28,623
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 14 $8,271
Calcium Acetate Generic 17 $1,455
Torsemide Generic 38 $1,008
Hydralazine Hcl Generic 19 $999
Bumetanide Generic 16 $993
Calcitriol Generic 21 $741
Losartan Potassium Generic 24 $321
Amlodipine Besylate Generic 22 $276

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 15 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 40,243 Part D prescribers listed as Emergency Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 44 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$247,930

Of which drugs: $24

Medicare patients

480

Average age 69

Services billed

2,282

215 women, 265 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Chronic kidney disease 75%
Diabetes 66%
Heart failure 65%
Ischemic heart disease 60%
Arthritis 47%
Atrial fibrillation 37%
Depression 32%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 Office 11 109 $11

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 10 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
IBSRELA
  • Ardelyx, Inc. $142
$142 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $114
$114 30 —
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $110
$110 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $45
$45 42 —
RAYALDEE
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC $36
$36 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

156 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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