Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Azem Chami

Pain Medicine Shreveport, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1073066247 CMS profile 8801546

1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103

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General payments

$8,583

103 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Azem Chami of Shreveport, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,583 across 103 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 77th percentile of Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $569 19
2024 General $456 15
2023 General $1,360 19
2022 General $423 8
2021 General $660 40
2020 General $5,115 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Azem Chami
  • Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Azem Chami were reported at $569. Among 2,779 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $458 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,401.

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Year Azem Chami Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $498 $126–$1,682 $163
2020 $5,115 $284 $80–$910 $114
2021 $660 $399 $112–$1,219 $132
2022 $423 $455 $137–$1,484 $149
2023 $1,360 $484 $128–$1,495 $160
2024 $456 $498 $131–$1,540 $164
2025 $569 $458 $124–$1,401 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Medtronic USA, Inc. $5,000 1 payment
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,913 38 payments
  3. Medtronic, Inc. $502 9 payments
  4. Abbott Laboratories $466 35 payments
  5. Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $314 10 payments
  6. Curonix LLC $214 2 payments
  7. Averitas Pharma Inc. $59 2 payments
  8. Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. $23 1 payment
  9. Avanos Medical $21 1 payment
  10. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc $19 1 payment
  11. Other $52 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Grant $5,000 1 payment
  2. Food and Beverage $3,173 99 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $410 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. SYNCHROMED $5,000 1 payment
  2. INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM $433 5 payments
  3. Proclaim IPG $398 32 payments
  4. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $355 18 payments
  5. Superion Indirect Decompression System $274 5 payments
  6. Evoke SCS $253 7 payments
  7. PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A $214 2 payments
  8. General - Pain Management $182 4 payments
  9. Superion $173 3 payments
  10. Intracept $128 1 payment
  11. Other $593 24 payments

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 65 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$25,272

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

127

Average age 65

Services billed

322

69 women, 58 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%
Arthritis 64%
Diabetes 35%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Depression 32%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
COPD 25%
Heart failure 20%

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.

Records

103 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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