Sara Nashi, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1699087080
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $88,861 of the $115,804 with a category attached, or 76.7%. Boston Scientific accounts for 87.6% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in OH 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 442 payments — averaging $262.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$101K
- Abbott$7K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$771
- Nevro Corp.$673
- plus $2K from 17 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $4105.83 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boston Scientific$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,2383%
- Speaking & faculty fees$88,86177%
- Travel & lodging$11,32710%
- Food & beverage$12,37711%
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 | 229 | $101,406 |
| Abbott | 55 | $6,609 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 18 | $2,553 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $1,360 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 10 | $771 |
| Nevro Corp. | 20 | $673 |
| AbbVie | 50 | $614 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $428 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 12 | $328 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $308 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $303 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $101 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Vertex | 3 | $55 |
| Stryker | 1 | $43 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| UCB, 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.
- Intracept$21,295
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$14,066
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$10,930
- PROCLAIM$4,450
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$1,601
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$1,113
- TARGETSTIM$990
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$832
- SPRINT PNS System$497
- Senza$365
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$337
- ETERNA$314
- mild Device Kit$264
- Proclaim DRG IPG$200
- Evoke SCS$155
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$120
- Omnia$116
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$109
How this compares
$115,804 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 67 interventional pain medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 12 | $13,308 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 61 | $962 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $867 |
| Gabapentin | 62 | $604 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 25 | $432 |
| Methocarbamol | 26 | $425 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 16 | $331 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 33 | $258 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $202 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $141 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 15 | $122 |
| Cephalexin | 30 | $82 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $53 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Cincinnati
- Brandon HarrisCincinnati$12K
- Sairam AtluriCincinnati$4K
- Gladstone McDowellColumbus$660K
- Humam AkbikFairfield$116K
- Jaudat MahmoodKent$97K
- Omar AliSpringfield$67K
- Dustin ReynoldsWesterville$61K
- James OttingToledo$47K
- Mark MalinowskiChillicothe$39K
- David WalegaColumbus$37K
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.