Has Kush Goyal, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $21,882 in general payments to Kush Goyal, MD across 106 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 Kush Goyal, 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 Kush Goyal, 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.

Kush Goyal, MD

Pain Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1679777528

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $14,400 of the $21,882 with a category attached, or 65.8%. Si-bone, Inc. accounts for 81.9% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $12,682 and has fallen 85.4% since, to $1,846 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$21,882in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 106 payments — averaging $206.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Si-bone, Inc.$18K
Boston Scientific$946
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$465
Nevro Corp.$380
MML US, Inc.$360
Radius Health, Inc.$241
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$14,40066%
Travel & lodging$2,50311%
Food & beverage$4,97823%

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
Si-bone, Inc.	47	$17,919
Boston Scientific	4	$946
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	10	$465
Nevro Corp.	3	$380
MML US, Inc.	6	$360
Radius Health, Inc.	2	$241
Stryker	8	$230
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	4	$202
Avanos Medical	3	$191
Globus Medical	1	$154
Medtronic	2	$145
Abbott	1	$135
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$125
UCB, Inc.	1	$106
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$74
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$67
Curonix LLC	2	$61
Pfizer	2	$38
Novo Nordisk	1	$16
Sonex Health, Inc.	2	$15
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$13

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

$21,882 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$59,937

Medicare patients

282

Services billed

705

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	118	$1,516
Pregabalin	45	$954
Celecoxib	22	$694
Diclofenac Sodium	20	$389
Lidocaine	11	$350
Meloxicam	74	$348
Tizanidine Hcl	42	$306
Baclofen	30	$262
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	25	$138
Tramadol Hcl	24	$122
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	28	$52

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Cleveland

Nagy MekhailCleveland$511K
Robert BolashCleveland$154K
Aman UpadhyayCleveland$40K
Salim HayekCleveland$34K
Trishul KapoorCleveland$33K
Edward CovingtonCleveland$25K
Jianguo ChengCleveland$23K
Jacob EzellCleveland$12K
Jijun XuCleveland$10K
Riad LahamCleveland$7K

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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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