Jaideep Mehta
Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1841459021
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $83,279 of the $134,044 with a category attached, or 62.1%. Acacia Pharma Inc accounts for 78.2% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $98,769 and has fallen 77.2% since, to $22,473 in 2022. Among pain medicine clinicians in TX 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.
Across 477 payments — averaging $281.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acacia Pharma Inc$105K
- MML US, Inc.$10K
- Abbott$4K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$4K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- plus $6K from 22 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $27,115 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$83,27962%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,5009%
- Travel & lodging$25,07419%
- Food & beverage$14,06210%
- Education$1290%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 114 | $104,756 |
| MML US, Inc. | 24 | $10,156 |
| Abbott | 121 | $4,273 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $3,998 |
| Boston Scientific | 63 | $2,449 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 64 | $2,418 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 8 | $1,880 |
| Nevro Corp. | 22 | $966 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $829 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 6 | $656 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $277 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $197 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $163 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $136 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $133 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 4 | $129 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $117 |
| Merck | 1 | $95 |
| Stryker | 1 | $55 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $50 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 3 | $33 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- BYFAVO$103,775
- ReActiv8$9,795
- HTX-011$3,592
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,817
- mild Device Kit$1,747
- Intracept$1,229
- SUPERION$921
- Prometra II$829
- INTELLIS$820
- Proclaim IPG$789
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$509
- BARHEMSYS$393
- iFuse Implant$277
- SYNCHROMED$270
- PROCLAIM$238
- VECTRIS$159
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$146
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$141
- Minuteman$133
- Zynrelef$125
How this compares
$134,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Houston
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- David LeimanHouston$131K
- Daniel PakHouston$117K
- Mitchell EngleHouston$72K
- Mayur KanjiaHouston$46K
- Baominh VinhHouston$44K
- Matthew ChungHouston$26K
- Thuan DaoHouston$23K
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.