Akhtar Purvez, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Charlottesville, VANPI 1922000132
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (35.4%), entertainment and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stimwave Technologies Incorporated accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,463 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $451 in 2025.
Across 92 payments — averaging $128.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$10K
- Curonix LLC$308
- Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc.$192
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$153
- Medline Industries LP$93
- Nevro Corp.$81
- plus $790 from 23 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $1733.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Curonix LLC$3K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0008%
- Travel & lodging$4,17135%
- Food & beverage$2,88624%
- Gifts$2392%
- Entertainment$3,48630%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 31 | $10,166 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $308 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 10 | $192 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $153 |
| Medline Industries LP | 4 | $93 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $81 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $72 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $61 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Vertex | 2 | $47 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $39 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $33 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$11,783 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 52 interventional pain medicine providers in Virginia.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 99 | $2,259 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 91 | $1,838 |
| Pregabalin | 31 | $812 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 36 | $732 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 12 | $346 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $313 |
| Topiramate | 11 | $277 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 40 | $180 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $162 |
| Baclofen | 12 | $146 |
| Meloxicam | 94 | $117 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $108 |
| Lorazepam | 29 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Charlottesville
- Salvador Sierra San NicolasCharlottesville$2K
- Mark DeanCharlottesville$193
- Ketan PatelHaymarket$133K
- Che TorryNewport News$48K
- Niteesh BhararaReston$25K
- Sassan HassassianManassas$24K
- Raj SurejaNewport News$23K
- Benjamin SeemanRichmond$21K
- Alok GopalWinchester$16K
- Jacob LeeWinchester$14K
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.