Heidi Seifert, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1710982798
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 26 payments — averaging $73.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$808
- Nevro Corp.$372
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$148
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$139
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$112
- Medtronic$107
- plus $234 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,920100%
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 | 9 | $808 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $372 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $139 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $112 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $107 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $106 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $30 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
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$356
- Intracept$296
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$208
- Omnia$115
- NURTEC ODT$112
- Senza$110
- Axium$108
- Ozempic$106
How this compares
$1,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 27 | $23,836 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 116 | $8,454 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 12 | $7,086 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 171 | $4,117 |
| Gabapentin | 57 | $1,412 |
| Baclofen | 45 | $958 |
| Pregabalin | 56 | $907 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 44 | $834 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 32 | $715 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 33 | $441 |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | 19 | $435 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $389 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 23 | $347 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 16 | $203 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 25 | $162 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Houston
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
- Brian BruelHouston$219K
- George AtallahHouston$48K
- Shervin HarandiHouston$39K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Duane GriffithTyler$730K
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
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.