Samir Patel
Pain Medicine · San Antonio, TXNPI 1992965982
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 140 payments — averaging $48.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- Nevro Corp.$489
- United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC$420
- Medtronic$292
- plus $704 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$92114%
- Food & beverage$5,88186%
- Education$210%
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 | 52 | $2,031 |
| Abbott | 29 | $1,730 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 12 | $1,157 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $489 |
| United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC | 2 | $420 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $292 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $135 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $130 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $91 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $34 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Novartis | 1 | $24 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Redhill Biopharma 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.
- PROCLAIM$881
- iFuse Implant$794
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$594
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$570
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$309
- Senza$257
- INTELLIS$156
- Omnia$125
- Proclaim IPG$112
How this compares
$6,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 14 | $1,344 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in San Antonio
- Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K
- Theresia LeeSan Antonio$104K
- Prabhdeep GrewalSan Antonio$48K
- Roberto DiazSan Antonio$37K
- Charles BryantSan Antonio$28K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
- Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.