Neal Shah, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Elgin, ILNPI 1356872576
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 41.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,545 and has fallen 94.0% since, to $334 in 2025.
Across 84 payments — averaging $94.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$677
- Nevro Corp.$530
- Medtronic$404
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$374
- plus $963 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,28241%
- Food & beverage$4,67659%
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 | 23 | $3,334 |
| Boston Scientific | 24 | $1,676 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $677 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $530 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $404 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 5 | $374 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $204 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 3 | $201 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $164 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $126 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $70 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $10 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$3,152
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$575
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$305
- Intracept$299
- Evoke SCS$204
- Omnia$178
- PAINTEQ$164
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$150
- VERTIFLEX SUPERION$145
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$140
- TYRX$114
- Intracept RF Probe$105
- BOTOX$102
How this compares
$7,958 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 93 interventional pain medicine providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 112 | $2,274 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 195 | $1,662 |
| Gabapentin | 69 | $1,142 |
| Meloxicam | 101 | $440 |
| Methylprednisolone | 68 | $385 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 28 | $303 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $234 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $137 |
| Diazepam | 39 | $52 |
| Prednisone | 27 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Elgin
- John PrunskisElgin$9K
- Alexander FeoktistovNorthfield$922K
- Timothy LubenowChicago$556K
- Sandeep AminChicago$430K
- Matthew JaycoxChicago$123K
- Hong VoChicago$91K
- Asokumar BuvanendranChicago$52K
- Ramsin BenyaminBloomington$32K
- Adam YoungChicago$29K
- Salman SagarwalaChicago$26K
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.