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

Naeem Akhtar

Gastroenterology Madera, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1831291863 CMS profile 700834

451 E Almond Ave Ste 103, Madera, CA 93637

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General payments

$8,580

424 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, Naeem Akhtar of Madera, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,580 across 424 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 78th percentile of Gastroenterology 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 $2,004 101
2024 General $1,364 61
2023 General $1,688 85
2022 General $1,688 92
2021 General $789 41
2020 General $394 16
2019 General $653 28

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Naeem Akhtar
  • Gastroenterology median
  • Middle half of Gastroenterology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Naeem Akhtar were reported at $2,004. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.

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Year Naeem Akhtar Gastroenterology median Middle half National median
2019 $653 $417 $126–$1,100 $163
2020 $394 $224 $74–$624 $114
2021 $789 $352 $106–$1,054 $132
2022 $1,688 $448 $129–$1,270 $149
2023 $1,688 $533 $150–$1,390 $160
2024 $1,364 $605 $160–$1,606 $164
2025 $2,004 $639 $167–$1,700 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,426 163 payments
  2. Celgene Corporation $963 64 payments
  3. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $770 38 payments
  4. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $702 12 payments
  5. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $449 13 payments
  6. Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $382 8 payments
  7. Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. $311 26 payments
  8. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $270 17 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $250 13 payments
  10. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals $191 10 payments
  11. Other $1,867 60 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,502 421 payments
  2. Education $79 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LINZESS $1,141 72 payments
  2. ZEPOSIA $1,085 65 payments
  3. CREON $894 64 payments
  4. XIFAXAN $654 29 payments
  5. RINVOQ $525 33 payments
  6. MAVYRET $367 21 payments
  7. Vemlidy $342 3 payments
  8. VOWST $324 27 payments
  9. SKYRIZI $310 22 payments
  10. STELARA $303 12 payments
  11. Other $3,719 165 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 · 23 drugs

Part D claims

1,623

Median for Gastroenterology: 569

Drug cost

$474,854

Median for Gastroenterology: $104,976

Branded share of claims

37.6%

Median for Gastroenterology: 31.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Iqirvo Elafibranor Brand 13 $194,679
Zeposia Ozanimod Hydrochloride Brand 14 $117,115
Zenpep Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 14 $60,804
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 56 $41,112
Voquezna Vonoprazan Fumarate Brand 17 $11,864
Trulance Plecanatide Brand 13 $11,325
Dexlansoprazole Dr Dexlansoprazole Brand 31 $9,753
Mesalamine Generic 32 $8,809
Gavilyte-C Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 395 $6,404
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 314 $2,864

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 23 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 14,294 Part D prescribers listed as Gastroenterology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 50 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$256,265

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,079

Average age 71

Services billed

3,122

610 women, 469 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%
Diabetes 52%
Arthritis 45%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Depression 21%
Heart failure 20%
COPD 18%

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 21 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
XIFAXAN
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $177
$177 — —
LINZESS
  • AbbVie, Inc. $134
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17
$151 56 —
CREON
  • AbbVie, Inc. $134
$134 — —
Bylvay
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $122
$122 — —
Vemlidy
  • Gilead Sciences, Inc. $122
$122 — —

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

424 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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