Linda Stewart, MD
Pain Medicine · Merrillville, INNPI 1730236928
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 157 payments — averaging $21.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Organogenesis Inc.$513
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$257
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$191
- Kerecis Limited$184
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$153
- plus $672 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,357100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 81 | $1,387 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 20 | $513 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 19 | $257 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 3 | $191 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $184 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 4 | $153 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 5 | $152 |
| Convatec Inc. | 6 | $109 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $90 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $61 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $46 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$3,357 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 128 pain medicine providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 19 | $11,067 |
| Mupirocin | 46 | $318 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 12 | $301 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 18 | $286 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $189 |
| Gabapentin | 21 | $147 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 24 | $119 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 23 | $118 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 17 | $95 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 11 | $35 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 15 | $33 |
| Carvedilol | 14 | $30 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 12 | $26 |
| Furosemide | 13 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Merrillville
- Tarek ShahbandarMerrillville$8K
- Meredith LanghorstFishers$1.5M
- Derron WilsonCarmel$1.3M
- Jonathan GentileCarmel$1.1M
- Kevin MacadaegCarmel$866K
- Robert FunkCarmel$417K
- Andrew TrobridgeMuncie$266K
- Abhishek DasMishawaka$186K
- Rajiv TewariFishers$140K
- John SwoffordIndianapolis$127K
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.