Okezie Okezie, MD
Pain Medicine · Baytown, TXNPI 1851392823
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 135 payments — averaging $20.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$659
- Nevro Corp.$377
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$343
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$154
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$129
- Globus Medical$127
- plus $1K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,808100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 40 | $659 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $377 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 20 | $343 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 7 | $154 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $129 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $127 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $116 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $77 |
| Amgen | 4 | $71 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $40 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $34 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $31 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Si-bone, 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.
- Omnia$126
How this compares
$2,808 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide | 35 | $81,726 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,992 | $68,430 |
| Buprenorphine | 170 | $41,359 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 57 | $40,241 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 92 | $35,888 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 552 | $17,392 |
| Lidocaine | 237 | $17,001 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 26 | $16,551 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 32 | $16,231 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 597 | $13,258 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 449 | $10,906 |
| Fentanyl | 88 | $9,835 |
| Pregabalin | 516 | $9,493 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 182 | $8,236 |
| Gabapentin | 742 | $7,914 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor | $343 | $81,72635 claims |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik | $83 | $35,88892 claims |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Xtampza Er | $659 | $32,78258 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Baytown
- John NgoBaytown$30K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
- Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
- Daniel PakHouston$460K
- Marvin ChangSugar Land$306K
- David LeimanHouston$281K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
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.