Max Epstein, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1801328901
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,462 of the $3,556 with a category attached, or 69.2%. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,299 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $52 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $93.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$740
- Boston Scientific$686
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$551
- Abbott$512
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$344
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$325
- plus $396 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,09331%
- Food & beverage$2,46269%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 9 | $740 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $686 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $551 |
| Abbott | 5 | $512 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $344 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $325 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $101 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Stryker | 1 | $46 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $42 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
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.
- INTELLIS$643
- SPRINT PNS System$416
- mild Device Kit$309
- Evoke SCS$304
- Proclaim IPG$176
- FOTIVDA$135
- PROCLAIM$133
- Intracept$116
- Omnia$101
How this compares
$3,556 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 117 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Utah.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 56 | $372 |
| Pregabalin | 20 | $134 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $122 |
| Meloxicam | 29 | $96 |
| Alprazolam | 12 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Salt Lake City
- Timothy GrangeSalt Lake City$11K
- Steven EdgleySalt Lake City$8K
- Taylor BurnhamSalt Lake City$7K
- Nicholas GavernSalt Lake City$5K
- Marc CarageaSalt Lake City$5K
- Arlan HenrieSalt Lake City$4K
- Aaron CongerSalt Lake City$2K
- Gabriel Martinez AlvarezSalt Lake City$2K
- Jeffrey RosenbluthSalt Lake City$1K
- Derek KreteSalt Lake City$1K
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.