Mazhar Rasul, MD
Pain Medicine · Lexington, KYNPI 1790893683
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (50.1%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Spinal Simplicity, LLC accounts for 74.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $23,494, more than ten times the $100 reported in 2019. Among pain medicine clinicians in KY 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 126 payments — averaging $235.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$22K
- MML US, Inc.$3K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Curonix LLC$853
- Si-bone, Inc.$563
- Abbott$495
- plus $1K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,35035%
- Travel & lodging$14,85950%
- Food & beverage$4,47315%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 57 | $22,157 |
| MML US, Inc. | 19 | $3,094 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $1,205 |
| Curonix LLC | 6 | $853 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $563 |
| Abbott | 6 | $495 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 7 | $492 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 6 | $284 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $273 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $166 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
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.
- LIBERTY SI$19,208
- ReActiv8$2,568
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$2,398
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$752
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$293
- ETERNA$282
- Evoke$234
- PAINTEQ$152
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$149
- PROCLAIM$148
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$138
- SPRINT PNS System$109
- BRIDION$100
How this compares
$29,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.
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.
Other pain medicine in Lexington
- Christopher MallardLexington$47K
- Stuart CowleyLexington$19K
- Michael HarnedLexington$17K
- Luis VascelloLexington$17K
- Shawn MilburnLexington$17K
- Brandon GishLexington$13K
- Timothy MimsLexington$11K
- Manoochehr MazloomdoostLexington$8K
- Maged FamLexington$7K
- Oliver JamesLexington$5K
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.