Has Sayed Wahezi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $160,554 in general payments to Sayed Wahezi, MD across 401 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 Sayed Wahezi, 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 Sayed Wahezi, 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.

Sayed Wahezi, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1073750741

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $112,928 of the $160,554 with a category attached, or 70.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 81.2% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $52,457, more than ten times the $4,174 reported in 2019. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in IN 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.

$160,554in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 401 payments — averaging $400.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$130K
Trice Medical, Inc.$11K
Vertex$8K
Vertos Medical, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$2K
plus $4K from 15 others

$1,025,335in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 362 payments — averaging $2832.42 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$481K
Abbott$364K
Vertos Medical, Inc.$168K
Regeneron$8K
Stryker$4K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$20,87313%
Speaking & faculty fees$112,92870%
Travel & lodging$13,7669%
Food & beverage$12,9878%

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	270	$130,291
Trice Medical, Inc.	11	$11,330
Vertex	12	$7,823
Vertos Medical, Inc.	6	$2,504
Medtronic(2 entities)	30	$2,191
Abbott	19	$2,062
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	6	$1,873
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	9	$791
Nevro Corp.	6	$268
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$267
AbbVie	6	$191
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	3	$183
MML US, Inc.	2	$150
Globus Medical	2	$139
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$118
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$90
GRT US Holding, Inc.	3	$81
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	5	$75
Avanos Medical	4	$59
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$39
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$27

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.

WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$26,929
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$18,597
WAVEWRITER ALPHA$15,137
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$14,701
GENERAL - THERAPIES$10,202
Intracept$3,298
mild Device Kit$2,310
Evoke$1,737
Proclaim IPG$1,152
VERCISE$1,052
Superion Indirect Decompression System$984
JOURNAVX$290
Nalu Neurostimulation System$267
INCEPTIV$251
MAZOR X SYSTEM$137
Omnia$136
Superion ISS$118
StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117
StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$117
StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117

How this compares

$160,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 140 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$48,858

Medicare patients

116

Services billed

354

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
Doxepin Hcl	317	$39,130
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	185	$13,920
Pregabalin	43	$2,719
Fentanyl	12	$1,779
Naproxen Sodium	13	$1,315
Gabapentin	97	$928
Duloxetine Hcl	95	$916
Tramadol Hcl	21	$713
Diclofenac Sodium	48	$644
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	43	$504
Tizanidine Hcl	73	$435
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine	13	$376
Ibuprofen	21	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Fort Wayne

Christina WalzFort Wayne$503K
David StenslandFort Wayne$24K
Daniel RothFort Wayne$10K
Robert KinneFort Wayne$5K
Thomas LazoffFort Wayne$3K
Marc Larsen-HallockFort Wayne$2K
Mark ZolmanFort Wayne$2K
Audrey SofairFort Wayne$1K
David LutzFort Wayne$735
Shashank DaveIndianapolis$198K

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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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