Azhar Kothawala, MD
Anesthesiology · Rockford, ILNPI 1891042552
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 102 payments — averaging $43.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$803
- Medtronic$349
- Nevro Corp.$254
- Abbott$173
- Vertex$129
- plus $560 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,97545%
- Food & beverage$2,44155%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $2,148 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 8 | $803 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $349 |
| Nevro Corp. | 14 | $254 |
| Abbott | 9 | $173 |
| Vertex | 2 | $129 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $73 |
| Merck | 3 | $66 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $62 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $41 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $28 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $18 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $13 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$1,521
- Intracept$541
- SYNCHROMEDII$112
- JOURNAVX$101
How this compares
$4,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,980 anesthesiology providers in Illinois.
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 | 170 | $4,383 |
| Pregabalin | 56 | $2,542 |
| Fentanyl | 14 | $2,108 |
| Gabapentin | 127 | $1,860 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $922 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 60 | $687 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 20 | $663 |
| Baclofen | 48 | $549 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $458 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 58 | $293 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 28 | $167 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $167 |
| Cefadroxil | 13 | $124 |
| Methylprednisolone | 19 | $117 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 11 | $112 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Rockford
- Nishant ShahChicago$2.1M
- Charles HogueChicago$686K
- Magdalena AnitescuChicago$592K
- Nancy GonzalezPark Ridge$421K
- Tolga SuvarChicago$370K
- Kimberly JohnsonChicago$281K
- Fiaz AhmedArlington Heights$251K
- Dragan GastevskiChicago$240K
- Edward ObrienUrbana$167K
- Glenn MurphyEvanston$129K
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.