Ameer Ali, DO
Pain Medicine · Tyler, TXNPI 1982065561
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 24.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,632, more than ten times the $141 reported in 2019.
Across 99 payments — averaging $58.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$667
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$413
- Curonix LLC$369
- Boston Scientific$368
- plus $1K from 13 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $7721.83 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.
- Seikagaku Corporation$23K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,79231%
- Food & beverage$3,07353%
- Education$92216%
- Gifts$150%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $1,437 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,330 |
| Medtronic | 20 | $667 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 3 | $413 |
| Curonix LLC | 7 | $369 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $368 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 13 | $242 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $219 |
| Stryker | 2 | $134 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $125 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $100 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Vertex | 4 | $63 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $40 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| SPR Therapeutics, 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.
How this compares
$5,802 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,658 | $44,409 |
| Pregabalin | 138 | $5,298 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 142 | $4,483 |
| Gabapentin | 312 | $4,200 |
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 12 | $4,194 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 60 | $3,464 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 232 | $2,441 |
| Lidocaine | 52 | $2,247 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 164 | $1,750 |
| Buprenorphine | 11 | $1,706 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 113 | $1,526 |
| Baclofen | 92 | $1,359 |
| Methocarbamol | 112 | $1,125 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 126 | $870 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 31 | $472 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $38 | $4,19412 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 60th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Tyler
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
- Puneet SayalCorpus Christi$153K
- Eduardo GarciaWebster$147K
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.