Nkem Aziken

What was reported, 2019–2025

$12,526

General payments

52 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.

$0

Research payments

Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.

$0

Ownership and investment

The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.

0

Disputed

This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.

How this compares

General payments: $12,526, 2019–⁠2025

By the amount companies reported, 1,534th among the 5,373 profiles with general payments in Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery).

General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total

Nationally	91,089th of 1,688,859
In Ohio	3,498th of 66,850
In Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)	1,534th of 5,373
Profiles below it nationally	More than 94%
Share of the national total	< 0.1%

What the payments were

Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.

By program year

CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.

The record

National Provider Identifier

1740625540

The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.

Specialty

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians, in CMS's taxonomy.

Licensed in

OH

The state of the license CMS lists first.

Recipient type

Covered Recipient Physician

How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.

Medicare prescribing

CMS holds no Part D record for NPI 1740625540 in the most recent year we hold, and that has two readings it does not distinguish between: this provider billed Medicare Part D for nothing that year, or they billed it for ten claims or fewer, which CMS removes from the file before publishing to protect the patients behind them. It does not mean the data is missing, and it does not mean this provider writes no prescriptions — anything paid for privately, by Medicaid, or by a patient is not in this file at all.

Elsewhere

• Payments to doctors in Ohio — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
• What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
• This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
• The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.