Salman Ahmad, MD
Internal Medicine Physician · Lubbock, TX
Salman Ahmad, MD is an internal medicine physician with a practice address in Lubbock, Texas, and NPI 1043281025, issued on Jan 30, 2006. Check the license (Texas J8863, as entered in NPPES) on the Texas Medical Board; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- Salman Ahmad
- Credential
- MD
- Primary taxonomy
- Internal Medicine Physician 207R00000X
- License number
- J8863 TX
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 2345 50TH St # 500, Lubbock, TX 79412
- Phone
- (806) 701-5797
- Enumerated
- Jan 30, 2006
- Record last updated
- Jul 22, 2020 (not updated in 6 years: call before relying on the address or phone)
- Fax
- (806) 701-5798
- Medicaid ID
- 127015902 TX
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20100521000440); accepts Medicare assignment
- Telehealth
- Offers telehealth (CMS)
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Also registered at 2345 50TH St # 500
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Verify Salman Ahmad in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersTexas Medical Board
Search for license J8863Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
6.4 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average internal medicine physician in 2024
20,263 Medicare Part D claims for 554 beneficiaries, against an average of 3,176 among the 108,855 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. Brand-name drugs were 16% of claims. 757 claims were for opioids.
Most prescribed
- Gabapentin636 claims
- Levothyroxine Sodium603 claims
- Atorvastatin Calcium574 claims
- Metformin Hcl562 claims
- Duloxetine Hcl544 claims
- Calcitonin-Salmon517 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
No measured MIPS final score for 2023
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 without scoring Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability or Improvement Activities. It is an administrative threshold, so PlainDoctor does not compare it with measured clinicians.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $1,062.79
55 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Abbvie Inc. The 50,334 providers of this specialty with any payment received $1,303.06 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Salman Ahmad among 9,175 internal medicine physician records in Texas
Salman Ahmad, MD is one of 9,175 internal medicine physician records with a practice address in Texas. 82% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2006, is newer than 9% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 9% of these records are older, 59% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 82% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 66% of these records are
- Graduated1989 · median 2004 among the 6,088 with a school on file
- Record last updated2020 · 49% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 207R00000X and a Texas practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
116 internal medicine physician records list a practice address in Lubbock
They are 116 of the 5,735 NPPES records with a practice address in Lubbock, and 9,175 internal medicine physician records in Texas.
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Common questions
What is Salman Ahmad, MD's NPI number?
Salman Ahmad, MD's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1043281025, issued on Jan 30, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is Salman Ahmad, MD located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 2345 50TH St # 500, Lubbock, TX, 79412. Phone: (806) 701-5797. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify Salman Ahmad, MD's license?
NPPES lists Texas license number J8863, as entered by the provider. Search the Texas Medical Board at https://profile.tmb.state.tx.us/Search.aspx. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
How much does Salman Ahmad, MD prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, Salman Ahmad, MD had 20,263 Medicare Part D claims for 554 beneficiaries; the average among internal medicine physician prescribers was 3,176. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is Salman Ahmad, MD's MIPS final score?
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 for 2023 without scoring any category, so it is not a measured result.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.