Qi Ye
Interventional Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1447548961
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 79 payments — averaging $20.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$398
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$214
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$194
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$124
- Medtronic$104
- Amgen$99
- plus $456 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$221%
- Food & beverage$1,56699%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $398 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $214 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 13 | $194 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 9 | $124 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $104 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $99 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $59 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Abbott | 2 | $46 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$227
- VECTRIS$104
How this compares
$1,588 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other interventional pain medicine in Houston
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
- Brian BruelHouston$219K
- George AtallahHouston$48K
- Shervin HarandiHouston$39K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Duane GriffithTyler$730K
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.