Has Amit Darnule, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $36,399 in general payments to Amit Darnule, MD across 122 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Amit Darnule, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Amit Darnule, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Amit Darnule, MD

Pain Medicine · Southlake, TXNPI 1760656011

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,643 of the $36,399 with a category attached, or 70.4%. Boston Scientific accounts for 88.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $18,990 and has fallen 94.8% since, to $979 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in TX 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.

$36,399in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $298.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$32K
Medtronic$3K
MML US, Inc.$418
Nalu Medical, Inc.$263
Nevro Corp.$242
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$197
plus $519 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,7855%
Speaking & faculty fees$25,64370%
Travel & lodging$4,51112%
Food & beverage$4,46012%

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
Boston Scientific	46	$32,160
Medtronic(2 entities)	45	$2,599
MML US, Inc.	4	$418
Nalu Medical, Inc.	6	$263
Nevro Corp.	5	$242
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$197
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$162
Globus Medical	2	$120
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	5	$115
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$58
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$24
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$22
Abbott	1	$18

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

$36,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$183,285

Medicare patients

462

Services billed

2,010

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	224	$6,360
Gabapentin	123	$1,048
Pregabalin	55	$864
Duloxetine Hcl	58	$783
Fentanyl	11	$727
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	19	$604
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	31	$391
Tizanidine Hcl	40	$373
Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen	35	$251
Methocarbamol	27	$201
Tramadol Hcl	33	$190
Methylprednisolone	26	$160
Cephalexin	18	$102
Meloxicam	24	$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Southlake

Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
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

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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.

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