Michael Sebahar
Pain Medicine · Carlsbad, CANPI 1558325365
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,790 of the $2,221 with a category attached, or 80.6%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 39.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,090 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $15 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,829.
Across 68 payments — averaging $32.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$869
- Medtronic$470
- Boston Scientific$296
- Nevro Corp.$97
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$95
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$55
- plus $338 from 14 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $2399.07 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$34K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$43019%
- Food & beverage$1,79081%
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 | 10 | $869 |
| Medtronic | 16 | $470 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $296 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $97 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 7 | $95 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $47 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $45 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 1 | $14 |
| Kaleo, 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.
How this compares
$2,221 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
Other pain medicine in Carlsbad
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
- Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
- Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
- Samir ShethRoseville$356K
- Einar OttestadStanford$352K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.