Ali Turabi
Pain Medicine · Bethesda, MDNPI 1013108232
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $29,600 of the $47,192 with a category attached, or 62.7%. SPR Therapeutics, Inc accounts for 87.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in MD 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 132 payments — averaging $357.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$41K
- Medtronic$2K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$980
- Nevro Corp.$583
- Boston Scientific$210
- plus $448 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$29,60063%
- Travel & lodging$13,01628%
- Food & beverage$4,57710%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 44 | $41,217 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 55 | $2,299 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 4 | $1,456 |
| Abbott | 6 | $980 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $583 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $210 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $134 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Novartis | 1 | $49 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 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.
- SPRINT PNS System$40,587
- Evoke$1,435
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$944
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$576
- INTELLIS$267
- SYNCHROMED$183
- Omnia$151
- Stimrouter Implantable Kit$134
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$124
- INCEPTIV$121
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$115
- Qutenza$101
How this compares
$47,192 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 144 pain medicine providers in Maryland.
Other pain medicine in Bethesda
- Ankush JainBethesda$26K
- Michael JacobsBethesda$11K
- Edward DolomisiewiczBethesda$2K
- Babak ArvanaghiBethesda$2K
- Frank LeeBethesda$2K
- Vipul MangalOxon Hill$764K
- Randy DavisBaltimore$169K
- Paul ChristoBaltimore$137K
- Kunal SoodGermantown$70K
- Behnam JafarpourBaltimore$45K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.