Akshay Garg, MD
Pain Medicine · Rockville, MDNPI 1518223411
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. at 46.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,587 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $906 in 2025.
Across 179 payments — averaging $98.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$8K
- Abbott$5K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$975
- Painteq LLC$221
- Nevro Corp.$187
- plus $863 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,88039%
- Travel & lodging$2,71115%
- Food & beverage$7,91645%
- Education$760%
- Entertainment$1181%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 11 | $8,193 |
| Abbott | 93 | $4,771 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 40 | $2,490 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $975 |
| Painteq LLC | 3 | $221 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $187 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $157 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Bioness Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $38 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- BELBUCA$8,072
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,412
- PROCLAIM$920
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$752
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$633
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$393
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$254
- Proclaim IPG$142
- S-Series SCS Leads$140
- Prospera$140
- ZTLido 30 POUCH in 1 CARTON 1 PATCH in 1 POUCH$140
- INCEPTIV$135
- SPRINT PNS System$133
- PAINTEQ$129
- Omnia$120
- Stimrouter for pain$118
How this compares
$17,702 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 144 pain medicine providers in Maryland.
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 | 110 | $690 |
| Pregabalin | 21 | $507 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Rockville
- Aubrey VerdunRockville$10K
- Vipul MangalOxon Hill$764K
- Randy DavisBaltimore$169K
- Paul ChristoBaltimore$137K
- Kunal SoodGermantown$70K
- Ali TurabiBethesda$47K
- Behnam JafarpourBaltimore$45K
- Eric FinkelsteinOwings Mills$37K
- Ankush JainBethesda$26K
- Sudhir RaoMount Airy$25K
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.