RxDoctor Payments Data

Ali Tareen, MD

Pain Medicine · Dallas, TXNPI 1396109476

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,589in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 221 payments — averaging $43.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$2K
  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
  • Abbott$1K
  • Boston Scientific$447
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$377
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,20013%
  • Travel & lodging$8739%
  • Food & beverage$6,02363%
  • Education$1,49216%

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

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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.

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

$9,589 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$429,577
Medicare patients
272
Services billed
9,950

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl37$27,340
Buprenorphine37$11,258
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen548$10,798
Lidocaine62$5,974
Gabapentin189$2,257
Celecoxib53$1,761
Tramadol Hcl207$1,380
Tizanidine Hcl59$1,335
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl21$1,053
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine72$921
Pregabalin98$852
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl45$508
Oxycodone Hcl23$293
Methocarbamol27$223
Duloxetine Hcl17$206

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca$377$27,34037 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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