Joel Saper
Pain Medicine · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1891888095
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,441 payments — averaging $3969.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1.1M
- AbbVie$1.1M
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$728K
- H. Lundbeck A S$628K
- Pfizer$622K
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$496K
- plus $1M from 11 others
Across 47 payments — averaging $4455.48 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.
- Pfizer$189K
- Eli Lilly$21K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$74382%
- Food & beverage$15918%
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 | 103 | $1,136,815 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 246 | $1,071,583 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 377 | $728,144 |
| H. Lundbeck A S | 257 | $628,200 |
| Pfizer | 203 | $621,573 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 138 | $496,065 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 63 | $415,379 |
| Eli Lilly | 17 | $343,997 |
| Novartis | 6 | $220,006 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $24,195 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 14 | $21,993 |
| Biogen | 1 | $6,001 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $3,500 |
| Dr.reddy's Laboratories,inc. | 1 | $1,337 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 2 | $720 |
| Ipsen Innovation | 2 | $381 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $182 |
How this compares
$5,720,071 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 139 pain medicine providers in Michigan.
Other pain medicine in Ann Arbor
- Patrick ForrestAnn Arbor$23K
- Peter StilesAnn Arbor$6K
- Jordan PetersenAnn Arbor$4K
- Harry SukumaranRochester Hills$308K
- Bindu Popat LewisGrand Rapids$135K
- Nasir KhatriFlint$133K
- Yijia ChuGrand Rapids$88K
- Mark MounayerSouthfield$85K
- Jeffrey RosenbergCanton$72K
- Alexander TurfeWyandotte$41K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.