Kristin Powers, MD
Pain Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1134658297
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 32 payments — averaging $123.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Boston Scientific$198
- Medtronic$171
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$101
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$96
- plus $116 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,31933%
- Travel & lodging$1,14829%
- Food & beverage$1,47537%
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 | 18 | $1,695 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $1,565 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $198 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $171 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $96 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,423
- Omnia$1,319
- SYNCHROMEDII$171
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$119
- mild Device Kit$101
How this compares
$3,942 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 65 | $1,441 |
| Gabapentin | 108 | $1,195 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $1,109 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 104 | $1,106 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $482 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 28 | $346 |
| Meloxicam | 36 | $256 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $190 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 11 | $152 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $152 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Cleveland
- Nagy MekhailCleveland$687K
- Robert BolashCleveland$640K
- Jijun XuCleveland$332K
- Salim HayekCleveland$311K
- Aman UpadhyayCleveland$40K
- Trishul KapoorCleveland$33K
- Edward CovingtonCleveland$28K
- Jianguo ChengCleveland$23K
- Kush GoyalCleveland$22K
- Jacob EzellCleveland$12K
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.