John Michels, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Dallas, TXNPI 1912137910
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 305 payments — averaging $65.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$10K
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$4K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Medtronic$693
- Pylant Medical$669
- MML US, Inc.$560
- plus $3K from 25 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16.00 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.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$16
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,41322%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,50017%
- Travel & lodging$3,05915%
- Food & beverage$9,03545%
- Gifts$140%
- Entertainment$520%
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 | 164 | $10,124 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $4,139 |
| Nevro Corp. | 36 | $1,312 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $693 |
| Pylant Medical | 5 | $669 |
| MML US, Inc. | 4 | $560 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $345 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 3 | $313 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 4 | $312 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $273 |
| Stryker | 4 | $216 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $186 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Amgen | 3 | $134 |
| Painteq LLC | 6 | $111 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| VGI Medical, LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $18 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $9 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $7 |
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.
- DSUVIA$4,124
- Axium INS DRG IPG$2,763
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$2,349
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$679
- Cardiovascular- Research only$590
- Omnia$484
- Proclaim IPG$464
- PROCLAIM$431
- ReActiv8$403
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$280
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$163
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$160
- Medical Device$145
- OPTABLATE$139
- SPINEJACK$139
- SUPERION$116
- EVENITY$109
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$101
How this compares
$20,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $1,196 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 27 | $456 |
| Gabapentin | 37 | $431 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $244 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $204 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Dallas
- Pritesh PatelDallas$24K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
- Duane GriffithTyler$730K
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
- Robert WillsRound Rock$692K
- Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$511K
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.