Rutvij Shah
Pain Medicine · Columbus, GANPI 1306209903
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.5%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $47,215, more than ten times the $124 reported in 2019. Among pain medicine clinicians in GA 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.
Across 334 payments — averaging $258.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$55K
- Medtronic$15K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$7K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Painteq LLC$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$48,82557%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,6333%
- Grants$5,0006%
- Travel & lodging$16,71419%
- Food & beverage$10,07812%
- Education$3,1384%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 61 | $54,731 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 60 | $15,389 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 14 | $6,605 |
| Boston Scientific | 35 | $2,439 |
| Painteq LLC | 4 | $1,518 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 9 | $1,408 |
| Abbott | 40 | $768 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 4 | $733 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 63 | $676 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $619 |
| Surgentec | 1 | $319 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $279 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $222 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 6 | $192 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $66 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $45 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $32 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $23 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Seagen Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
- mild Device Kit$37,108
- SPINEJACK$15,343
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$10,313
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$6,119
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$5,886
- SYNCHROMED$5,000
- Intracept$4,570
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$2,403
- PAINTEQ$1,478
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$977
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$676
- MULTIGEN 2$450
- 3D GraftRasp System$319
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$264
- Senza$257
- SOLIRIS$249
- INTELLIS$210
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$159
- OPTABLATE$132
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$120
How this compares
$86,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 107 | $2,849 |
| Pregabalin | 96 | $2,105 |
| Gabapentin | 110 | $1,387 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 60 | $780 |
| Baclofen | 19 | $665 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 62 | $438 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 42 | $327 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 41 | $262 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $177 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $57 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Columbus
- Hares AkbaryColumbus$14K
- Angela StrotherColumbus$7K
- Vats AmbaiColumbus$7K
- Gary DawsonColumbus$7K
- Siddardth UmapathyFort Eisenhower$41K
- Susheel DuaAtlanta$36K
- Subodh AgrawalAthens$34K
- Jose MathewLawrenceville$27K
- Zhuo SunAugusta$26K
- Maged HamzaGainesville$24K
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.