Meghan Bhave, MD
Pain Medicine · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1851679591
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 144 payments — averaging $22.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$483
- Nevro Corp.$263
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$257
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$244
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$191
- Pfizer$175
- plus $2K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,251100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 25 | $483 |
| Nevro Corp. | 12 | $263 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $257 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 17 | $244 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $191 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $175 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 8 | $171 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $105 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $95 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $81 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $78 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 5 | $69 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Vertex | 2 | $42 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $30 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $27 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Intracept$548
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$166
- PROCLAIM$141
- Superion ISS$111
How this compares
$3,251 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 57 | $5,177 |
| Gabapentin | 366 | $5,035 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 272 | $4,480 |
| Pregabalin | 156 | $2,854 |
| Fentanyl | 28 | $2,643 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 82 | $1,181 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 39 | $924 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 66 | $859 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 26 | $804 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 175 | $729 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 71 | $716 |
| Baclofen | 18 | $645 |
| Methocarbamol | 88 | $641 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 27 | $638 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 36 | $492 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Arlington Heights
- George MacriniciArlington Heights$14K
- Yuriy BukhaloArlington Heights$13K
- Paul MarsigliaArlington Heights$12K
- Mohammad AhsanArlington Heights$9K
- Demetrios LouisArlington Heights$8K
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$3.1M
- David DickersonEvanston$766K
- Albert SinghQuincy$357K
- Steven CohenChicago$292K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
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.