Has Saad Syed, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $31,447 in general payments to Saad Syed, MD across 150 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Saad Syed, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Saad Syed, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Saad Syed, MD

Anesthesiology · Olathe, KSNPI 1598031775

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $20,300 of the $31,447 with a category attached, or 64.6%. Boston Scientific accounts for 91.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among anesthesiology clinicians in KS 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.

$31,447in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 150 payments — averaging $209.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$29K
Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
Painteq LLC$161
Nalu Medical, Inc.$140
Nevro Corp.$136
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$114
plus $303 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,6005%
Speaking & faculty fees$20,30065%
Travel & lodging$4,68615%
Food & beverage$4,86115%

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	116	$28,680
Vertiflex, Inc.	11	$1,913
Painteq LLC	1	$161
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$140
Nevro Corp.	6	$136
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	3	$114
Globus Medical	2	$97
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$52
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$44
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$28
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$21
Avanos Medical	1	$19
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$17
Abbott	1	$14
Medtronic	1	$11

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

$31,447 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 337 anesthesiology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$249,893

Medicare patients

498

Services billed

2,501

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
Gabapentin	186	$3,020
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	135	$2,326
Tizanidine Hcl	108	$1,291
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	41	$1,021
Pregabalin	42	$943
Methocarbamol	57	$841
Oxycodone Hcl	33	$713
Diclofenac Sodium	49	$587
Celecoxib	29	$542
Nortriptyline Hcl	21	$263
Tramadol Hcl	48	$257
Methylprednisolone	21	$151
Baclofen	36	$149
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	15	$90
Methadone Hcl	12	$51

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other anesthesiology in Olathe

Andrea McCownOlathe$2K
Anthony HapgoodOlathe$590
Jeffrey MunroOlathe$358
Eric BradstreetOlathe$324
Sandra HechtLenexa$139K
Richard UhlenhoppKansas City$16K
Timothy SowderKansas City$13K
Jared ScottWichita$10K
Susheel GovindanKansas City$10K
Thomas WoodardWichita$9K

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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.

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