Latrice Akuamoah, MD
Pain Medicine · Hoboken, NJNPI 1497047955
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $17,675 of the $21,175 with a category attached, or 83.5%. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,491 and has fallen 69.3% since, to $2,297 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in NJ 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.
Across 290 payments — averaging $73.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Abbott$4K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Painteq LLC$1K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$1K
- plus $6K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,41616%
- Food & beverage$17,67583%
- Gifts$150%
- Entertainment$680%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 58 | $4,889 |
| Abbott | 47 | $4,009 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 16 | $2,484 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 21 | $1,522 |
| Painteq LLC | 9 | $1,372 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 6 | $1,267 |
| MML US, Inc. | 11 | $905 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 8 | $624 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $604 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $436 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 24 | $396 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $357 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $347 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $325 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $213 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 6 | $201 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 6 | $191 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $170 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $125 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $106 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 6 | $84 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $50 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $40 |
| Vertex | 2 | $40 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$2,427
- Evoke$2,139
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$1,897
- PAINTEQ$1,119
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,066
- PROCLAIM$1,017
- Intracept$981
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$873
- ReActiv8$755
- Proclaim IPG$490
- mild Device Kit$464
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$391
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$335
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$300
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$285
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$283
- INTELLIS$261
- SYNCHROMED$204
- Axium$189
- CORRIDOR$176
How this compares
$21,175 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 256 pain medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 54 | $44,367 |
| Lidocaine | 87 | $14,326 |
| ButransBuprenorphine | 21 | $10,640 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 21 | $9,180 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 119 | $7,647 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 287 | $7,044 |
| Buprenorphine | 31 | $5,970 |
| Fentanyl | 46 | $3,374 |
| Pregabalin | 109 | $3,239 |
| Gabapentin | 179 | $2,596 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 86 | $1,766 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 75 | $1,704 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 64 | $1,409 |
| Cyanocobalamin InjectionCyanocobalamin (Vitamin B-12) | 26 | $1,206 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 87 | $1,074 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $213 | $44,36754 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 256 pain medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other pain medicine in Hoboken
- Sean LiShrewsbury$1.2M
- Matthias WiederholzLawrenceville$853K
- Todd StitikNewark$370K
- Peter StaatsShrewsbury$286K
- Warren GraceEdison$158K
- Caitlin InnerfieldHaddonfield$97K
- Anson MoiseEnglewood$78K
- Pavli DemianSomerset$65K
- Dipan PatelClifton$50K
- Matthew LesneskiMount Laurel$47K
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.