Hamed Sadeghipour, MD
Pain Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1457771073
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (52.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik NRO, Inc. at 58.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,653, more than ten times the $376 reported in 2021.
Across 104 payments — averaging $97.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$6K
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$910
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$348
- Boston Scientific$245
- Corelink, LLC$224
- plus $831 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,35553%
- Travel & lodging$1,21512%
- Food & beverage$3,56335%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 16 | $5,950 |
| Abbott | 17 | $1,626 |
| Medtronic | 38 | $910 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 7 | $348 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $245 |
| Corelink, LLC | 2 | $224 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 3 | $220 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $203 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $133 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $29 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $16 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 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.
- Prospera$5,531
- PROCLAIM$1,206
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$219
- Proclaim IPG$131
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$115
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$110
How this compares
$10,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Missouri.
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.
Other pain medicine in Saint Louis
- Vinicius Tieppo FrancioSaint Louis$35K
- Jooyoung MaengSaint Louis$25K
- Nabil AhmadSaint Louis$21K
- Katharine GurbaSaint Louis$18K
- Jeremy ThompsonSaint Louis$11K
- Alexander BeyzerSaint Louis$11K
- Hess PanjetonSaint Louis$6K
- Xiaobin YiSaint Louis$6K
- Nicole ShinSaint Louis$6K
- Satish ReddySaint Louis$5K
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.