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

Amaal Starling

Neurology Scottsdale, AZ Medical Doctor

NPI 1801058193 CMS profile 1211725

13400 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85259

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General payments

$315,158

155 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$5,201

Paid to them · 8 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$28,938 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2021

Through program year 2025, Amaal Starling of Scottsdale, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $315,158 across 155 general payments and $5,201 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $28,938 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

10 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $102,638 38
2025 Research $1,600 3
2024 General $74,786 28
2023 General $29,444 19
2022 General $32,822 10
2021 General $23,385 14
2021 Research $514 3
2020 General $29,290 14
2020 Research $3,087 2
2019 General $22,793 32

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Amaal Starling
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Amaal Starling were reported at $102,638. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Amaal Starling Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $22,793 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $29,290 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $23,385 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $32,822 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $29,444 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $74,786 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $102,638 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. H. Lundbeck A S $132,736 43 payments
  2. Lundbeck LLC $99,561 36 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $29,418 17 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $19,129 16 payments
  5. Eli Lilly and Company $9,876 17 payments
  6. Lilly USA, LLC $6,101 5 payments
  7. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $5,046 2 payments
  8. AbbVie, Inc. $4,788 7 payments
  9. Allergan Inc. $3,470 5 payments
  10. Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC $2,950 3 payments
  11. Other $2,083 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Honoraria $160,932 35 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $81,240 36 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $40,085 27 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $25,510 53 payments
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $7,350 3 payments
  6. Education $40 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VYEPTI Neurology $128,724 44 payments
  2. VYEPTI Neurology $50,258 15 payments
  3. AIMOVIG $20,129 13 payments
  4. NURTEC ODT $16,287 10 payments
  5. ZAVZPRET $14,856 4 payments
  6. EMGALITY $3,701 3 payments
  7. BOTOX Anti-Migraine $3,430 4 payments
  8. TOSYMRA $2,000 1 payment
  9. ZEMBRACE SYMTOUCH $2,000 1 payment
  10. BOTOX Facial Aesthetics $1,800 1 payment
  11. Other $250 5 payments

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

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Amgen Inc. $3,601 5 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $1,600 3 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 14 drugs

Part D claims

357

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$85,457

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

39.5%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Ubrelvy Ubrogepant Brand 24 $31,632
Emgality Pen Galcanezumab-Gnlm Brand 27 $31,234
Aimovig Autoinjector Erenumab-Aooe Brand 13 $15,150
Sumatriptan Succinate Generic 38 $1,996
Zonisamide Generic 17 $1,260
Rizatriptan Rizatriptan Benzoate Brand 64 $911
Gabapentin Generic 48 $909
Memantine Hcl Generic 16 $693
Nortriptyline Hcl Generic 24 $613
Tizanidine Hcl Generic 21 $453

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 14 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 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$80,957

Of which drugs: $53,436

Medicare patients

134

Average age 71

Services billed

11,649

101 women, 33 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
Arthritis 57%
High blood pressure 54%
Depression 34%
Ischemic heart disease 22%
Osteoporosis 22%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
Diabetes 14%
Cancer 14%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, onabotulinumtoxina, 1 unit J0585 Office 35 11,100 $53,419

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

4 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
VYEPTI
  • H. Lundbeck A S $44,637
  • Lundbeck LLC $15,438
$60,075 — —
NURTEC ODT
  • PFIZER INC. $6,998
$6,998 — —
ZAVZPRET
  • PFIZER INC. $381
$381 — —
BOTOX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $8
$8 — 11,100

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.

Records

163 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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