Has Eric Ngo, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,383 in general payments to Eric Ngo, MD across 158 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 Eric Ngo, 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 Eric Ngo, 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.

Eric Ngo, MD

Pain Medicine · Shenandoah, TXNPI 1942658059

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,383in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 158 payments — averaging $34.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
UCB, Inc.$656
Boston Scientific$375
AstraZeneca$310
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$279
AbbVie$274
plus $2K from 26 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$79915%
Food & beverage$4,58485%

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
Medtronic	28	$1,634
UCB, Inc.	21	$656
Boston Scientific	10	$375
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	12	$310
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	11	$279
AbbVie	8	$274
Amgen	2	$226
Nevro Corp.	4	$220
Eisai Inc.	7	$202
Lilly USA, LLC	10	$168
Novartis	7	$134
Abbott	5	$117
Argenx US, Inc.	4	$103
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$84
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$75
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$71
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$61
Impel Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$46
SK Life Science, Inc.	2	$45
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$37
Biogen	2	$36
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$35
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$32
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	1	$24
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$23
Sanofi	1	$20
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$19
Vertex	1	$19
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$18
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$17
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$14

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

$5,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$160,452

Medicare patients

284

Services billed

1,878

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
Buprenorphine	27	$5,330
Gabapentin	164	$2,550
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	84	$1,975
Pregabalin	55	$840
Diclofenac Sodium	23	$413
Duloxetine Hcl	36	$410
Tizanidine Hcl	48	$348
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	13	$310
Methocarbamol	54	$262
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	29	$256
Tramadol Hcl	59	$224
Celecoxib	18	$187
Baclofen	11	$174
Buprenorphine Hcl	12	$146
Morphine Sulfate	12	$135

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Shenandoah

Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
Daniel PakHouston$460K
Marvin ChangSugar Land$306K
David LeimanHouston$281K
Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K

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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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