Has Kunal Parikh, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $26,472 in general payments to Kunal Parikh, MD across 334 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 Kunal Parikh, 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 Kunal Parikh, 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.

Kunal Parikh, MD

Pain Medicine · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1639313802

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $18,630 of the $26,472 with a category attached, or 70.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 43.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,019 and has fallen 57.2% since, to $3,007 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in NV with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$26,472in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 334 payments — averaging $79.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$12K
Abbott$8K
Boston Scientific$3K
Painteq LLC$2K
Vertiflex, Inc.$855
Biotronik NRO, Inc.$685
plus $774 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,05012%
Speaking & faculty fees$4,09015%
Travel & lodging$7023%
Food & beverage$18,63070%

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)	187	$11,587
Abbott	66	$7,530
Boston Scientific	35	$3,250
Painteq LLC	10	$1,792
Vertiflex, Inc.	5	$855
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	18	$685
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	4	$318
Globus Medical	3	$182
Stryker	1	$163
Nevro Corp.	2	$49
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$26
Curonix LLC	1	$18
Si-bone, 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

$26,472 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 101 pain medicine providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$47,214

Medicare patients

Services billed

371

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	72	$1,814
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	44	$1,558
Tizanidine Hcl	166	$1,004
Gabapentin	90	$947
Pregabalin	33	$582
Oxycodone Hcl	36	$440
Diclofenac Sodium	20	$340
Meloxicam	124	$268
Baclofen	21	$251
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	30	$174
Ibuprofen	16	$148
Naproxen	13	$141
Tramadol Hcl	19	$86

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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