Has Sai Alla, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,852 in general payments to Sai Alla, MD across 105 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 Sai Alla, 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 Sai Alla, 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.

Sai Alla, MD

Anesthesiology · Post Falls, IDNPI 1396272357

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,491 of the $9,852 with a category attached, or 65.9%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 38.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,833 and has fallen 55.5% since, to $1,705 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in ID 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.

$9,852in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $93.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$4K
Si-bone, Inc.$2K
Boston Scientific$2K
Stryker$1K
Nevro Corp.$359
Medtronic$219
plus $333 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6,49166%
Food & beverage$3,36034%

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
Abbott	27	$3,755
Si-bone, Inc.	12	$1,917
Boston Scientific	27	$1,881
Stryker	8	$1,388
Nevro Corp.	6	$359
Medtronic	7	$219
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	9	$164
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$32
Globus Medical	1	$27
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$26
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$22
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$21
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$21
Bioventus LLC	1	$18

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.

PROCLAIM$3,474
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,477
OPTABLATE$1,235
mild Device Kit$988
Intracept$756
Superion Indirect Decompression System$395
Senza$256

How this compares

$9,852 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 90 anesthesiology providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$166,390

Medicare patients

523

Services billed

1,428

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
Buprenorphine	24	$4,379
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$380
Gabapentin	57	$295
Pregabalin	15	$200
Oxycodone Hcl	23	$198
Methocarbamol	11	$153
Tramadol Hcl	24	$107
Meloxicam	36	$96
Triazolam	17	$21

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.