RxDoctor Payments Data

Praveen Mambalam, MD

Pain Medicine · Edmonds, WANPI 1790942886

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 44 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3%. Among pain medicine clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$32,062in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 471 payments — averaging $68.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$7K
  • Abbott$6K
  • MDD US Operations, LLC$4K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Surgentec$2K
  • Si-bone, Inc.$1K
  • plus $8K from 38 others
$20,959in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $3493.12 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$18K
  • Boston Scientific$3K

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,7509%
  • Travel & lodging$11,84737%
  • Food & beverage$17,46454%

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

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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.

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

$32,062 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$161,180
Medicare patients
208
Services billed
1,203

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Buprenorphine94$28,418
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl37$16,379
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate13$4,245
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen169$2,571
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen114$1,758
Oxycodone Hcl102$833
Gabapentin45$373
Pregabalin37$285
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine11$236
Cephalexin25$217
Hydromorphone Hcl16$114
Mupirocin11$111
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl25$55
Tramadol Hcl32$54

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Xtampza Er$230$20,62450 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 95th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Washington.

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