Sepehr Rejai, MD
Pain Medicine · Berkeley, CANPI 1760825806
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $41,943 of the $64,396 with a category attached, or 65.1%. SPR Therapeutics, Inc accounts for 81.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $26,980 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $3,896 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in CA 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 154 payments — averaging $418.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$53K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$7K
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Abbott$114
- Nevro Corp.$104
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$70
- plus $17 from 1 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16.00 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.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$16
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$41,94365%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,3005%
- Travel & lodging$12,75820%
- Food & beverage$6,37710%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 65 | $52,510 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 12 | $6,854 |
| Boston Scientific | 68 | $4,726 |
| Abbott | 3 | $114 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $104 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- SPRINT PNS System$51,646
- mild Device Kit$6,854
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$1,500
- SUPERION$142
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$109
How this compares
$64,396 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 45 | $8,347 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 356 | $7,515 |
| Gabapentin | 336 | $4,527 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 44 | $2,715 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 94 | $2,697 |
| Lidocaine | 19 | $2,428 |
| Pregabalin | 99 | $2,395 |
| Celecoxib | 75 | $2,010 |
| Baclofen | 43 | $1,962 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 100 | $1,329 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 56 | $1,293 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 24 | $1,256 |
| Fentanyl | 12 | $941 |
| Methadone Hcl | 44 | $940 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 14 | $720 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Berkeley
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
- Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
- Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
- Samir ShethRoseville$356K
- Einar OttestadStanford$352K
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.