Robert Chow, MD
Pain Medicine · New Haven, CTNPI 1508178641
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,701 of the $5,397 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 31.8% of the total.
Across 72 payments — averaging $74.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$813
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$691
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$634
- Nevro Corp.$491
- Bioventus LLC$379
- plus $672 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,69631%
- Food & beverage$3,70169%
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 | 18 | $1,716 |
| Abbott | 6 | $813 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 17 | $691 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $634 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $491 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $379 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $168 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $127 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $104 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$5,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 69 pain medicine providers in Connecticut.
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.
Other pain medicine in New Haven
- David GutierrezNew Haven$151K
- Yili HuangNew Haven$18K
- Daniel HaddadNew Haven$10K
- Clarisse Melinda San JuanNew Haven$4K
- Kanishka RajputNew Haven$1K
- Ruchi SharmaNew Haven$890
- Lloyd SaberskiNew Haven$700
- Donna Ann ThomasNew Haven$524
- Colin Beals-ReidNew Haven$193
- Sandeep JoharWaterbury$329K
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.