Alaa Abd-Elsayed
Pain Medicine · Madison, WINPI 1194967703
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (50.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Curonix LLC at 28.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $381,594 and has fallen 52.1% since, to $182,969 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1,125 payments — averaging $1166.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Curonix LLC$371K
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$252K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$180K
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$154K
- Avanos Medical$143K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$66K
- plus $145K from 20 others
Across 77 payments — averaging $9439.78 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.
- Medtronic$684K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$26K
- Painteq LLC$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$659,87450%
- Speaking & faculty fees$434,70133%
- Travel & lodging$182,80714%
- Food & beverage$34,2353%
- Education$1840%
- Entertainment$840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Curonix LLC | 165 | $371,266 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 221 | $251,974 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 165 | $180,453 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 158 | $154,387 |
| Avanos Medical | 81 | $142,515 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 71 | $66,060 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 96 | $62,573 |
| Abbott | 48 | $27,777 |
| Eminent Spine, LLC | 11 | $25,130 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 38 | $13,565 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 10 | $6,122 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 17 | $2,997 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $2,787 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 12 | $1,044 |
| GE HealthCare | 4 | $998 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 1 | $369 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 6 | $356 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $268 |
| Emergent Biosolutions Inc. | 1 | $225 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $196 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $190 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 4 | $187 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $138 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $110 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Vertex | 1 | $99 |
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.
- Qutenza$402,686
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$346,036
- SPRINT PNS System$64,787
- COOLIEF$63,428
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$57,678
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$57,678
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$57,678
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$57,678
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$57,678
- COOLIEF* COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY$37,247
- COOLED RFA$32,690
- PROCLAIM$27,086
- Eminent Spine SI Screw System$18,500
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$17,510
- SCS FreedonSpinal Cord Stimulator$17,376
- StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$15,250
- INTELLIS$14,269
- Nimbus$12,776
- SYNCHROMED$9,431
- GENERATOR$8,356
How this compares
$1,311,885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 82 pain medicine providers in Wisconsin.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Madison
- Frederick FreitagMadison$157K
- Thomas FaullMadison$66K
- Jacob KraemerMadison$11K
- Kwadwo AchampongMadison$9K
- Michael GibsonMadison$8K
- Kathryn SlaughterMadison$7K
- Haroutiun HamzoianMadison$3K
- David BryceMadison$1K
- Larry MandersMadison$1K
- Michael JungWest Bend$339K
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.