Has Joseph Atallah, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,678 in general payments to Joseph Atallah, MD across 354 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joseph Atallah, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Joseph Atallah, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Joseph Atallah, MD

Pain Medicine · Toledo, OHNPI 1255395034

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,404 of the $7,678 with a category attached, or 83.4%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 47.8% of the total.

$7,678in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 354 payments — averaging $21.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$4K
Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$936
Stryker$443
AbbVie$170
Amgen$155
plus $1K from 15 others

$1,176,899in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 303 payments — averaging $3884.15 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.

Boston Scientific$1.2M

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,27417%
Food & beverage$6,40483%

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
Boston Scientific	269	$3,670
Vertiflex, Inc.	12	$1,221
Medtronic(2 entities)	27	$936
Stryker	5	$443
AbbVie(2 entities)	5	$170
Amgen(2 entities)	2	$155
Gilead	2	$137
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$117
Corcept Therapeutics	1	$115
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	5	$101
Abbott	5	$97
Nevro Corp.	4	$93
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$88
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$69
Nalu Medical, Inc.	4	$64
Johnson & Johnson	1	$54
Smith+Nephew	2	$40
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	2	$38
Flowonix Medical Incorporated	1	$32
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$21
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$17

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.

How this compares

$7,678 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$348,890

Medicare patients

622

Services billed

6,646

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	125	$1,904
Doxycycline Hyclate	131	$1,437
Pregabalin	17	$1,019
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	95	$918
Gabapentin	55	$721
Oxycodone Hcl	24	$449
Tizanidine Hcl	32	$317
Tramadol Hcl	29	$136
Cephalexin	11	$118
Methylprednisolone	15	$112
Diazepam	27	$23
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$12

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Tammy DannDayton$431K
Michael DankoLoveland$381K
Jonathan SilvermanDayton$234K
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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.

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