Has Boss Povieng received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,760 in general payments to Boss Povieng across 140 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 Boss Povieng 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 Boss Povieng 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.

Boss Povieng

Pain Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1316569064

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,741 of the $9,760 with a category attached, or 89.6%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 26.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,605, more than ten times the $345 reported in 2022.

$9,760in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $69.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Abbott$1K
Medtronic$1K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$901
Nevro Corp.$825
Biotronik NRO, Inc.$505
plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,01810%
Food & beverage$8,74190%

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	30	$2,617
Abbott	24	$1,487
Medtronic	21	$1,257
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	7	$901
Nevro Corp.	21	$825
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	5	$505
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	4	$266
Avanos Medical	2	$263
AbbVie	5	$245
Globus Medical	4	$234
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$172
MML US, Inc.	1	$170
Painteq LLC	2	$156
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$150
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$136
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$125
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$86
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$64
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$31
Vertex	1	$29
Aucta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$15

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

$9,760 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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