David Saldivar, MD
Pain Medicine · Morgantown, WVNPI 1164870515
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $25,000 of the $27,724 with a category attached, or 90.2%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 59.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $15,107 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $25 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in WV 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 50 payments — averaging $554.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$16K
- Boston Scientific$11K
- Nevro Corp.$262
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$75
- Abbott$55
- Merck$23
- plus $41 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$25,00090%
- Travel & lodging$1,0424%
- Food & beverage$1,6816%
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(2 entities) | 14 | $16,458 |
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $10,810 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $262 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Abbott | 3 | $55 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $19 |
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.
- SYNCHROMED$15,000
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$10,000
- INTELLIS$835
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$161
- Omnia$108
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$105
How this compares
$27,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 35 pain medicine providers in West Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 14 | $241 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Morgantown
- Violet ShacklefordMorgantown$17K
- Richard VaglientiMorgantown$13K
- Brian SlaterMorgantown$6K
- Benjamin BirneyMorgantown$3K
- Trey VanekMorgantown$2K
- Richard BowmanMorgantown$2K
- Nicole HollisMorgantown$1K
- Onyechi MegafuHuntington$37K
- Lucas BraceroCharleston$24K
- Muhammad MaazHuntington$19K
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.