Dean Pahr
Pain Medicine · Mentor, OHNPI 1417900473
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $21.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Steris Corporation$599
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$573
- Edwards Lifesciences$400
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$227
- Pfizer$139
- Boston Scientific$120
- plus $726 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$40014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$59922%
- Food & beverage$1,77364%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $599 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 48 | $573 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $400 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 21 | $227 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $139 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $120 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $118 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $86 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Novartis | 5 | $66 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $29 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,785 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.
Other pain medicine in Mentor
- Hassan AboumerhiMentor$31K
- Patrick BoylanMentor$10K
- Priyesh MehtaDayton$2.2M
- Joseph AtallahToledo$1.2M
- Michael DankoLoveland$1.1M
- Tristan WeaverColumbus$799K
- Nagy MekhailCleveland$687K
- Robert BolashCleveland$640K
- Alexander EscobarToledo$639K
- Henry VuceticWilloughby$510K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.