Alireza Abdollahi-Fard
Pain Medicine · Fresno, CANPI 1205161932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (26.7%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 68.2% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $11,333 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $161 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 268 payments — averaging $91.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$17K
- Abbott$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- Painteq LLC$912
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$899
- Boston Scientific$772
- plus $972 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,16821%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,39026%
- Travel & lodging$6,27226%
- Food & beverage$6,53527%
- Education$1020%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 113 | $16,688 |
| Abbott | 33 | $2,195 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 27 | $2,028 |
| Painteq LLC | 10 | $912 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 13 | $899 |
| Boston Scientific | 33 | $772 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $255 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 12 | $207 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 5 | $166 |
| Curonix LLC | 4 | $106 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $69 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $14 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Intracept$3,449
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,967
- INTELLIS$1,485
- RESTORE$1,114
- Proclaim IPG$720
- mild Device Kit$706
- PAINTEQ$674
- Proclaim DRG IPG$534
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$390
- Omnia$158
- MYSTIM$149
- Superion ISS$122
- SUPERION$121
- SYNCHROMED$121
- SYNCHROMEDII$119
How this compares
$24,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levorphanol Tartrate | 13 | $70,341 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 15 | $7,730 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 263 | $6,752 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 76 | $1,885 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 71 | $1,108 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $786 |
| Methadone Hcl | 46 | $781 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 21 | $705 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 24 | $592 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 15 | $510 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 19 | $501 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 47 | $436 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 17 | $430 |
| Baclofen | 27 | $373 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $164 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Fresno
- Lance LarsenFresno$35K
- Robert SalazarFresno$25K
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
- Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
- Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
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.