Arti Ori, MD
Pain Medicine · Boston, MANPI 1326160847
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (53.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 80.6% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $30,785, more than ten times the $584 reported in 2019. Among pain medicine clinicians in MA 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 368 payments — averaging $169.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$50K
- Abbott$7K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$521
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$475
- Nevro Corp.$333
- plus $2K from 22 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $21,453 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.
- Medtronic$43K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,2002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$33,50054%
- Travel & lodging$13,96322%
- Food & beverage$13,76522%
- Education$390%
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 | 216 | $50,362 |
| Abbott | 46 | $6,558 |
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $2,321 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $521 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 5 | $475 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $333 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 6 | $330 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 16 | $165 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $134 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 1 | $117 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $98 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 6 | $89 |
| Novartis | 4 | $76 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Stryker | 1 | $45 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $31 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$29,469
- SYNCHROMEDII$14,672
- PROCLAIM$5,202
- SUPERION$1,091
- Intracept$611
- VenaSeal$543
- GABLOFEN$469
- Evoke$460
- ETERNA$318
- INCEPTIV$284
- Senza$270
- SPRINT PNS System$258
- Prospera$254
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$121
How this compares
$62,467 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 137 pain medicine providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 16 | $2,196 |
| Baclofen | 80 | $1,859 |
| Pregabalin | 80 | $1,843 |
| Gabapentin | 89 | $1,603 |
| Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine | 29 | $1,469 |
| Lidocaine | 24 | $1,436 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 63 | $1,114 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 59 | $796 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 23 | $369 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $351 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $238 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 12 | $215 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $140 |
| Meloxicam | 27 | $134 |
| Methadone Hcl | 12 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Boston
- Thomas SimopoulosBoston$181K
- Christine SangBoston$56K
- Eduard VaynbergBoston$32K
- David HaoBoston$16K
- Erika YihBoston$8K
- Samuel AngBoston$7K
- Kevin VuBoston$6K
- Brenda LeeBoston$6K
- Steven MachBoston$5K
- Rupeng LiBoston$4K
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.