Shaan Sudhakaran
Pain Medicine · Silver Spring, MDNPI 1598101859
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,637 of the $3,329 with a category attached, or 79.2%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 39.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,337 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $50 in 2022.
Across 102 payments — averaging $32.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Abbott$698
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$188
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$167
- Boston Scientific$145
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$132
- plus $702 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$68020%
- Food & beverage$2,63779%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 18 | $1,298 |
| Abbott | 16 | $698 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 9 | $188 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 11 | $167 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $145 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $132 |
| Amgen | 8 | $122 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $101 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $90 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $43 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $28 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- INTELLIS$778
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$389
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$101
- StimQ Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US Receiver$101
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$101
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$101
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$101
How this compares
$3,329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 144 pain medicine providers in Maryland.
Other pain medicine in Silver Spring
- Sohan NagraniSilver Spring$20K
- Vipul MangalOxon Hill$764K
- Randy DavisBaltimore$169K
- Paul ChristoBaltimore$137K
- Kunal SoodGermantown$70K
- Ali TurabiBethesda$47K
- Behnam JafarpourBaltimore$45K
- Eric FinkelsteinOwings Mills$37K
- Ankush JainBethesda$26K
- Sudhir RaoMount Airy$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.