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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,446 in general payments to Joseph Cardinale, MD across 31 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 Cardinale, 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 Cardinale, 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 Cardinale, MD

Pain Medicine · Lewes, DENPI 1093980625

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,612 of the $2,446 with a category attached, or 65.9%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 50.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,414 and has fallen 55.9% since, to $623 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in DE, where the typical reported total is $3,435.

$2,446in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $78.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Nevro Corp.$1K
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$50
AbbVie$32
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$20

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$83534%
Food & beverage$1,61266%

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	14	$1,244
Nevro Corp.	14	$1,100
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$50
AbbVie	1	$32
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20

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.

INTELLIS$921
Senza$687
Omnia$139
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$120

How this compares

$2,446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 31 pain medicine providers in Delaware.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$328,139

Medicare patients

691

Services billed

3,988

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
Gabapentin	243	$2,561
Prednisone	220	$2,490
Celecoxib	12	$338
Tramadol Hcl	54	$218
Ibuprofen	26	$158
Meloxicam	30	$108
Cephalexin	17	$73
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$58
Diazepam	13	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Lewes

Rany AbdallahBear$291K
Hersh PatelNewark$104K
Shachi PatelNewark$27K
Selina XingWilmington$13K
Manonmani AntonyGeorgetown$11K
Andrew CrichlowGeorgetown$7K
Phong leMilford$7K
Alexander MatzWilmington$6K
Daniel NasrWilmington$6K
Sriniketh SundarWilmington$5K

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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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