Michael Sebahar
Pain Medicine · Carlsbad, CANPI 1558325365
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $436.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$34K
- Abbott$869
- Boston Scientific$296
- Nevro Corp.$97
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$95
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$55
- plus $338 from 14 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $34,057 |
| Abbott | 10 | $869 |
| 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
$35,808 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
Other pain medicine in Carlsbad
- Nathan MillerCarlsbad$568K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Xiang QianRedwood City$941K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.