Ahmed Embabi
Pain Medicine · Sherman, TXNPI 1225458904
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,381 of the $6,630 with a category attached, or 81.2%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,052 and has fallen 58.6% since, to $849 in 2025.
Across 209 payments — averaging $31.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Captiva Spine Inc$965
- Nevro Corp.$908
- Stryker$324
- plus $692 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,24819%
- Food & beverage$5,38181%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 85 | $1,325 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 52 | $1,303 |
| Abbott | 22 | $1,115 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 4 | $965 |
| Nevro Corp. | 15 | $908 |
| Stryker | 7 | $324 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 4 | $101 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $88 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $66 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $25 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Transfasten$880
- PROCLAIM$576
- Senza$382
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$281
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$272
- INTELLIS$242
- Omnia$161
- ReActiv8$125
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$110
- ETERNA$104
- ARIA$102
How this compares
$6,630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 548 | $15,070 |
| Pregabalin | 295 | $4,958 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 54 | $1,982 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 46 | $1,671 |
| Buprenorphine | 12 | $1,647 |
| Fentanyl | 18 | $1,580 |
| Gabapentin | 93 | $1,437 |
| Methocarbamol | 99 | $1,135 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 80 | $1,034 |
| Baclofen | 62 | $568 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 88 | $509 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $497 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 38 | $465 |
| Meloxicam | 114 | $378 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $308 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Sherman
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
- Puneet SayalCorpus Christi$153K
- Eduardo GarciaWebster$147K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.