Has Farzad Karkvandeian, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $30,112 in general payments to Farzad Karkvandeian, DO across 374 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 Farzad Karkvandeian, DO 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 Farzad Karkvandeian, DO 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.

Farzad Karkvandeian, DO

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · King Of Prussia, PANPI 1669819132

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vertos Medical, Inc. at 59.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $12,657 and has fallen 77.1% since, to $2,897 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in PA 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.

$30,112in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 374 payments — averaging $80.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Vertos Medical, Inc.$18K
Boston Scientific$3K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
plus $4K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$16,00053%
Travel & lodging$3,71612%
Food & beverage$10,39635%

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
Vertos Medical, Inc.	73	$17,926
Boston Scientific	50	$2,663
Medtronic(2 entities)	17	$1,775
Abbott	103	$1,709
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	14	$1,257
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	11	$1,091
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	8	$857
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	6	$442
Curonix LLC	3	$221
Nalu Medical, Inc.	9	$213
Nevro Corp.	7	$190
Si-bone, Inc.	6	$189
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	7	$165
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$146
Zimmer Biomet	2	$111
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$104
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$80
Appliedvr Inc	3	$75
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$71
AbbVie	2	$68
Globus Medical	2	$67
MDD US Operations, LLC	2	$56
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$54
Avanos Medical	2	$52
Johnson & Johnson	3	$48
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$46
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$45
Vertex	2	$44
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$43
Bioventus LLC	2	$40
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$36
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$32
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$31
MML US, Inc.	1	$30
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$21
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$20
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$15
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$15
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$13
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$12
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$9

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.

mild Device Kit$16,558
Intracept$4,115
VenaSeal$782
SPRINT PNS System$767
StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$709
StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$709
StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$709
Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$709
Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$709
ClosureFast$397
Evoke$393
PROCLAIM$306
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$184
Intracept RF Probe$162
Prospera$146
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$128
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$107

How this compares

$30,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 550 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$256,583

Medicare patients

269

Services billed

4,574

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
Gabapentin	189	$1,135
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	49	$797
Pregabalin	66	$727
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	20	$505
Methylprednisolone	101	$479
Oxycodone Hcl	19	$372
Celecoxib	33	$353
Duloxetine Hcl	25	$348
Tizanidine Hcl	63	$305
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	34	$288
Tramadol Hcl	39	$150
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	23	$137
Diclofenac Sodium	12	$78
Cephalexin	14	$30
Meloxicam	28	$24

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in King Of Prussia

Jeffery RoweKing Of Prussia$1.9M
Scott DavidoffKing Of Prussia$36K
Roy LermanKing Of Prussia$7K
Eric LiuKing Of Prussia$6K
Denis RogersKing Of Prussia$3K
Michael SaulinoElkins Park$425K
Huaguang QuChalfont$356K
Alberto EsquenaziPhiladelphia$305K
Mitchell PaulinPaoli$229K
Kimberly HeckertPhiladelphia$119K

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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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