Ju Gao, MD
Pain Medicine · van Wert, OHNPI 1194003509
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 103 payments — averaging $17.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$385
- Pfizer$286
- Medtronic$264
- Boston Scientific$220
- Nevro Corp.$180
- West Therapeutics Development, LLC$118
- plus $371 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,80299%
- Education$231%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 25 | $385 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $286 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $264 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $220 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $180 |
| West Therapeutics Development, LLC | 8 | $118 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $54 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $38 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $27 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.
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 | 578 | $12,580 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 11 | $8,575 |
| Fentanyl | 74 | $7,305 |
| Piroxicam | 20 | $6,114 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 234 | $4,517 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 150 | $3,635 |
| Gabapentin | 263 | $3,194 |
| Calcipotriene | 12 | $3,098 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 114 | $2,213 |
| Pregabalin | 81 | $1,344 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 43 | $1,148 |
| Methadone Hcl | 88 | $1,065 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 88 | $943 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 39 | $898 |
| Methocarbamol | 56 | $867 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in van Wert
- Priyesh MehtaDayton$2.2M
- Joseph AtallahToledo$1.2M
- Michael DankoLoveland$1.1M
- Tristan WeaverColumbus$799K
- Nagy MekhailCleveland$687K
- Robert BolashCleveland$640K
- Alexander EscobarToledo$639K
- Henry VuceticWilloughby$510K
- Tammy DannDayton$431K
- Jijun XuCleveland$332K
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.