Bhaskara Ganti, MD
Pain Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1477917292
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 570 payments — averaging $32.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$11K
- Medtronic$3K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$613
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$413
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1881%
- Food & beverage$18,18499%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 406 | $10,791 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 65 | $3,060 |
| Nevro Corp. | 15 | $1,130 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 12 | $1,089 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $613 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 29 | $413 |
| Curonix LLC | 4 | $224 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 1 | $216 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $189 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $181 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $163 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $121 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$2,744
- Intracept$2,419
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$938
- Proclaim IPG$636
- Omnia$442
- ETERNA$296
- Senza$292
- Sacrix$216
- NanoFuse Putty$216
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$212
- IonicRF Generator$198
- SYNCHROMEDII$196
- SUPERION$150
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$147
- INTELLIS$138
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$131
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$121
- SPRINT PNS System$116
- Evoke$115
- VERTIFLEX SUPERION$102
How this compares
$18,372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 | 1,905 | $51,892 |
| Buprenorphine | 77 | $15,220 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 23 | $12,711 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 112 | $9,404 |
| Gabapentin | 580 | $6,813 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 12 | $6,214 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 289 | $6,058 |
| Lidocaine | 63 | $5,911 |
| Pregabalin | 301 | $5,121 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 14 | $4,062 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 252 | $3,632 |
| Hydrocodone-IbuprofenHydrocodone/Ibuprofen | 22 | $3,274 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 318 | $2,428 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 148 | $2,209 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 72 | $2,101 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Xtampza Er | $80 | $18,92435 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 85th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Austin
- Raj PatelAustin$120K
- Ramesh SingaAustin$34K
- Robert MousselliAustin$34K
- Sandford SchocketAustin$28K
- Mahan OstadianAustin$27K
- Raimy AmashaAustin$26K
- Matthew McCartyAustin$26K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
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.