Has Houman Danesh, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,924 in general payments to Houman Danesh, MD across 59 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 Houman Danesh, 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 Houman Danesh, 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.

Houman Danesh, MD

Pain Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1649433145

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,924in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $32.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$526
Nevro Corp.$325
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$264
UCB, Inc.$249
Abbott$168
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$122
plus $271 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,924100%

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
Amgen	39	$526
Nevro Corp.	2	$325
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	2	$264
UCB, Inc.	2	$249
Abbott	2	$168
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$122
Pfizer	6	$119
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$75
AbbVie	2	$43
Vertex	1	$22
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$12

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.

Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$325
NURTEC ODT$264
Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$145
CODMAN CERTAS$122
CUSA CLARITY$122
CODMAN HAKIM$122
DURASEAL EXACT SPINAL SEALANT SYSTEM$122

How this compares

$1,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 503 pain medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$42,795

Medicare patients

Services billed

4,578

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
Morphine Sulfate	11	$468
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	11	$185

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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