Michael Pylman
Pain Medicine · Albuquerque, NMNPI 1407803893
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,133 of the $2,458 with a category attached, or 86.8%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $769 and has fallen 78.4% since, to $166 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in NM, where the typical reported total is $2,719.
Across 115 payments — averaging $21.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$370
- AbbVie$288
- Nevro Corp.$269
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$238
- Amgen$206
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$149
- plus $938 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$32513%
- Food & beverage$2,13387%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $370 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $288 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $269 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 8 | $238 |
| Amgen | 9 | $206 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $149 |
| Novartis | 7 | $134 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $119 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 21 | $95 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $80 |
| Abbott | 2 | $79 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Mindray DS USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$325
- Omnia$144
- EXPAREL$122
- AJOVY$122
How this compares
$2,458 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 36 pain medicine providers in New Mexico.
Other pain medicine in Albuquerque
- John WatkinsAlbuquerque$22K
- Craig RumbaughAlbuquerque$11K
- Eugene KoshkinAlbuquerque$10K
- Matthew BergstenAlbuquerque$7K
- Lauren HarrisAlbuquerque$6K
- Melissa MerhegeAlbuquerque$5K
- Jeremy ChastainAlbuquerque$5K
- Joshu RaitenAlbuquerque$4K
- Thomas WhalenAlbuquerque$4K
- Matthew ValerianoAlbuquerque$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.