Joel Saper
Pain Medicine · Ann Arbor, MINPI 1891888095
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $743 of the $902 with a category attached, or 82.3%. Promius Pharma LLC accounts for 79.9% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $1,927.
Across 5 payments — averaging $180.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Promius Pharma LLC$720
- Lundbeck LLC$182
Across 1,483 payments — averaging $3997.69 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.
- Amgen$1.1M
- AbbVie$1.1M
- Pfizer$810K
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$728K
- H. Lundbeck A S$628K
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$496K
- plus $1.1M from 9 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Promius Pharma LLC | 2 | $720 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $182 |
How this compares
$902 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th 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$304K
- Nasir KhatriFlint$133K
- Yijia ChuGrand Rapids$88K
- Mark MounayerSouthfield$85K
- Jeffrey RosenbergCanton$44K
- Alexander TurfeWyandotte$41K
- Kendall GroseWyandotte$26K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.