Edward Apicella
Interventional Pain Medicine · Albany, NYNPI 1528051869
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Abbott accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,086 and has fallen 98.1% since, to $151 in 2023.
Across 185 payments — averaging $68.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$265
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$186
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$158
- plus $558 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,10448%
- Food & beverage$6,61652%
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 | 47 | $8,127 |
| Nevro Corp. | 40 | $2,229 |
| Boston Scientific | 32 | $1,198 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $265 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $186 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $158 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $146 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Amgen | 4 | $58 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $51 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $46 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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 Family of SCS IPGs$5,056
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$1,360
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$1,022
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$378
- Intracept$236
- Senza$128
- Octrode SCS Leads$126
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$124
- NURTEC ODT$124
- Omnia$113
How this compares
$12,720 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 132 interventional pain medicine providers in New York.
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Other interventional pain medicine in Albany
- Martin FerrilloAlbany$164K
- Amar ParikhAlbany$28K
- Farrukh AnsariAlbany$6K
- Corey HunterNew York$446K
- Neel MehtaNew York$432K
- Hemant KaliaRochester$179K
- George ChaseKew Gardens$102K
- Kimberly SackheimNew York$102K
- Suelane OuroNew York$68K
- Gerard DegregorisNew York$49K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.