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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $70,119 in general payments to Kunal Sood, MD across 557 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 Sood, 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 Sood, 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 Sood, MD

Pain Medicine · Germantown, MDNPI 1467795211

Payments from drug & device makers

$70,119in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 557 payments — averaging $125.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Exact Sciences$50K
Vertos Medical, Inc.$5K
Boston Scientific$3K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$2K
Nalu Medical, Inc.$775
plus $7K from 47 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,0456%
Speaking & faculty fees$50,00071%
Travel & lodging$1,1692%
Food & beverage$14,90521%

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
Exact Sciences	1	$50,000
Vertos Medical, Inc.	35	$5,439
Boston Scientific	86	$3,472
Medtronic(2 entities)	72	$2,101
Abbott	51	$1,818
Nalu Medical, Inc.	15	$775
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	64	$734
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	52	$646
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	31	$491
Si-bone, Inc.	5	$446
MML US, Inc.	2	$411
Nevro Corp.	11	$409
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	4	$375
Surgentec	1	$278
AbbVie(2 entities)	15	$252
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	11	$223
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$168
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	6	$153
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	2	$142
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	3	$135
Amgen(2 entities)	8	$128
Globus Medical	1	$126
Curonix LLC	1	$108
Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$98
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	6	$97
GRT US Holding, Inc.	3	$92
Pfizer	5	$90
Almatica Pharma LLC	5	$89
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	5	$72
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$68
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	4	$64
Novartis	3	$57
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$54
MDD US Operations, LLC	2	$46
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$46
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$46
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$40
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$38
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$31
Shionogi Inc	2	$29
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$26
Johnson & Johnson	1	$24
Stryker	1	$24
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$23
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Painteq LLC	1	$19
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$17
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$15
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$11
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$10

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.

Cologuard Collection Kit$50,000
mild Device Kit$4,539
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$961
Nalu Neurostimulation System$411
ReActiv8$411
iFuse Implant$408
HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$306
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$290
TiLink$278
ION$278
Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$274
Varithena Administration Pack$239
PROCLAIM$221
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$160
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$141
Prospera$140
KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$121
Omnia$117
BELBUCA$114
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$108

How this compares

$70,119 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 144 pain medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$215,346

Medicare patients

387

Services billed

3,098

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	26	$14,022
Diclofenac Sodium	24	$3,035
Fentanyl	26	$2,979
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	109	$2,662
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	51	$2,040
Oxycodone Hcl	98	$1,283
Pregabalin	56	$1,208
Lidocaine	14	$1,109
Gabapentin	88	$964
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	55	$860
Tramadol Hcl	74	$683
Tizanidine Hcl	30	$575
Duloxetine Hcl	21	$524
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	59	$449
Morphine Sulfate	15	$411

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Germantown

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Vipul MangalOxon Hill$795K
Seung LeeBaltimore$680K
Randy DavisBaltimore$169K
Thomas LeeAnnapolis$148K
Paul ChristoBaltimore$137K
Brian KahanAnnapolis$73K
Ali TurabiBethesda$47K
Behnam JafarpourBaltimore$45K
Brian BlockBaltimore$40K

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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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