Patrick Polsunas, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1366972549
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $50.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$670
- Boston Scientific$469
- Medtronic$412
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$216
- Abbott$199
- Si-bone, Inc.$58
- plus $266 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$67029%
- Food & beverage$1,59970%
- Education$211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $670 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $469 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $412 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 11 | $216 |
| Abbott | 4 | $199 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Vertex | 1 | $53 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $52 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $39 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $21 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$670
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$670
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$670
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$670
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$670
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$245
- INTELLIS$139
- IonicRF$130
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$119
How this compares
$2,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 550 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Pennsylvania.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levorphanol Tartrate | 11 | $20,228 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 51 | $11,611 |
| Lidocaine | 31 | $7,943 |
| Buprenorphine | 18 | $4,935 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 188 | $3,915 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 30 | $2,665 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 32 | $2,010 |
| Gabapentin | 141 | $1,948 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 54 | $1,143 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 35 | $944 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 28 | $762 |
| Lubiprostone | 11 | $681 |
| Baclofen | 35 | $658 |
| Celecoxib | 21 | $550 |
| Pregabalin | 37 | $531 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine-Naloxone, Buprenorphine, Buprenorphine Hcl | $21 | $18,556101 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 85th percentile of 550 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Pennsylvania.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Pittsburgh
- Michael MuninPittsburgh$412K
- Shelana Gibbs-McelvyPittsburgh$39K
- Alexander BehnazPittsburgh$18K
- Kentaro OnishiPittsburgh$12K
- Colton HickmanPittsburgh$9K
- Karl LiebePittsburgh$5K
- John LeePittsburgh$4K
- Thomas FranzPittsburgh$4K
- Cameron OlezenePhiladelphia$4.1M
- Jeffery RoweKing Of Prussia$2M
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.