Prajakta Avhad, MD
Pain Medicine · Somerset, NJNPI 1861709156
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 38 payments — averaging $21.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$133
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$110
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$106
- Johnson & Johnson$78
- Zimmer Biomet$63
- Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$51
- plus $286 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$81699%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $133 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $78 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $63 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $42 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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
$828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 256 pain medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Epolamine | 14 | $12,728 |
| Lidocaine | 90 | $10,837 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 194 | $6,903 |
| Gabapentin | 202 | $1,517 |
| Celecoxib | 79 | $1,430 |
| Pregabalin | 51 | $1,154 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 97 | $814 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $540 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 24 | $467 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 132 | $454 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 58 | $251 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $222 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 26 | $211 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $160 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 15 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Somerset
- Pavli DemianSomerset$65K
- Evelyn FengSomerset$5K
- Sean LiShrewsbury$2.2M
- Matthias WiederholzLawrenceville$866K
- Todd StitikNewark$370K
- Peter StaatsShrewsbury$362K
- Warren GraceEdison$158K
- Caitlin InnerfieldHaddonfield$97K
- Rajat SekharWhiting$84K
- Anson MoiseEnglewood$78K
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.