Jonathan Paek, MD
Pain Medicine · Cypress, TXNPI 1831519040
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 363 payments — averaging $30.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
- Painteq LLC$661
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$288
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3303%
- Travel & lodging$1,56214%
- Food & beverage$9,26083%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 59 | $2,574 |
| Boston Scientific | 94 | $2,202 |
| Abbott | 93 | $2,138 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 14 | $1,450 |
| Painteq LLC | 12 | $661 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $288 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 7 | $151 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $149 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $145 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $135 |
| Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. | 2 | $92 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $90 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $81 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 6 | $79 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| GSK | 3 | $58 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $58 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $50 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $48 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Bayer | 2 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $26 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $21 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$1,140
- Superion ISS$1,092
- Axium INS DRG IPG$525
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$377
- PAINTEQ$300
- V-LOC 180$225
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$144
- INCEPTIV$139
- Prospera$137
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$128
- Intracept RF Probe$125
- Axium Sheath Braided DRG$110
- mild Device Kit$110
How this compares
$11,157 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 583 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 | 147 | $2,947 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 30 | $1,438 |
| Gabapentin | 114 | $1,251 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 61 | $1,186 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 68 | $1,013 |
| Pregabalin | 48 | $829 |
| Celecoxib | 30 | $729 |
| Methylprednisolone | 97 | $685 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 65 | $559 |
| Baclofen | 44 | $502 |
| Topiramate | 57 | $490 |
| Methocarbamol | 36 | $411 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 85 | $350 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 27 | $287 |
| Meloxicam | 34 | $163 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Cypress
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
- Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
- Daniel PakHouston$460K
- Marvin ChangSugar Land$306K
- David LeimanHouston$281K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K
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.