Has Calin Savu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,759 in general payments to Calin Savu, MD across 57 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 Calin Savu, 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 Calin Savu, 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.

Calin Savu, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1801976956

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,770 of the $2,759 with a category attached, or 64.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 54.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,798 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $28 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in AR, where the typical reported total is $3,706.

$2,759in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $48.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$2K
Nevro Corp.$617
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$107
Curonix LLC$98
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$74
Si-bone, Inc.$73
plus $277 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Grants$532%
Travel & lodging$93634%
Food & beverage$1,77064%

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	12	$1,514
Nevro Corp.	24	$617
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	3	$107
Curonix LLC	1	$98
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$74
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$73
Medtronic	1	$53
Pfizer	3	$47
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$45
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$41
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$39
Vertex	1	$28
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$24

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.

WAVEWRITER ALPHA$1,084
Omnia$233

How this compares

$2,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 29 interventional pain medicine providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$86,998

Medicare patients

137

Services billed

1,236

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	857	$20,881
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	27	$11,000
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	314	$7,426
Gabapentin	435	$5,710
Pregabalin	227	$4,131
Oxycodone Hcl	220	$3,675
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	117	$2,940
Methadone Hcl	127	$2,777
Morphine Sulfate	121	$2,560
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	176	$1,542
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	27	$1,108
Nortriptyline Hcl	97	$924
Duloxetine Hcl	88	$880
Fentanyl	14	$646
Tizanidine Hcl	65	$637

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Jonesboro

Wolf HeberleinJonesboro$5K
Sunil GeraJonesboro$103
Sameer JainBryant$56K
Ryan KrafftMountain Home$51K
Robert CannonFayetteville$15K
Amir QureshiLittle Rock$14K
Brett WhatcottFort Smith$10K
Mohammad EldeebFort Smith$9K
Ahmed GhalebLittle Rock$7K
Michael AdamsMena$6K

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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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