Linh Ngo
Pain Medicine · Plano, TXNPI 1073074787
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.8% of the total across 99 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,132.
Across 99 payments — averaging $19.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$342
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$253
- AbbVie$210
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$206
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$183
- Nevro Corp.$139
- plus $605 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$814%
- Food & beverage$1,85796%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 21 | $342 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 8 | $253 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $210 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $206 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 9 | $183 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $139 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $135 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Abbott | 2 | $49 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Pylant Medical | 1 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $17 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,938 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 16 | $256 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $150 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Plano
- Noor GajrajPlano$85K
- Jonathan KoningPlano$47K
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.