Mehul Sekhadia, DO
Pain Medicine · Bloomingdale, ILNPI 1194771741
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.6%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,485 and has fallen 71.4% since, to $2,144 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in IL 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 310 payments — averaging $75.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$5K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$4K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Abbott$2K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$2K
- plus $4K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,1009%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,27510%
- Travel & lodging$5,94625%
- Food & beverage$12,26553%
- Education$2771%
- Gifts$900%
- Entertainment$3742%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 27 | $5,064 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 13 | $3,983 |
| Boston Scientific | 70 | $3,335 |
| Medtronic | 51 | $2,596 |
| Abbott | 61 | $2,112 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 12 | $1,754 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 18 | $1,322 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 24 | $721 |
| Surgentec | 1 | $525 |
| Stryker | 4 | $489 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 4 | $274 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $233 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 6 | $224 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $165 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $135 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $63 |
| Merck | 1 | $54 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $53 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$3,251
- SPRINT PNS System$1,361
- Senza$1,200
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$778
- INTELLIS$621
- Intracept$601
- ETERNA$588
- ION Facet Screw System$525
- TiLink$525
- SYNCHROMEDII$459
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$289
- Prospera$282
- INCEPTIV$260
- SUPERION$242
- SlimTip lead DRG Lead$209
- Proclaim IPG$179
- OMNICURVE$154
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$150
- PAINTEQ$135
- Avista MRI$125
How this compares
$23,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 82 | $874 |
| Gabapentin | 41 | $458 |
| Cefadroxil | 46 | $289 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 14 | $257 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $178 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $138 |
| Baclofen | 12 | $135 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 24 | $125 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $69 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Bloomingdale
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$2.3M
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
- Steven CohenChicago$217K
- Albert SinghQuincy$212K
- Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
- Ryan KutaNaperville$114K
- Anthony LebarioElgin$87K
- Keith SchmidtHoffman Estates$81K
- Jay HurhLibertyville$71K
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.