Shailesh Gandhi, MD
Pain Medicine · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1992758783
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,353 of the $16,966 with a category attached, or 72.8%. It is spread thinly across 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.1%.
Across 344 payments — averaging $49.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- plus $5K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,59827%
- Food & beverage$12,35373%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 58 | $2,738 |
| Boston Scientific | 51 | $2,680 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 6 | $2,144 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 53 | $1,449 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 21 | $1,274 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 14 | $1,188 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 6 | $1,048 |
| Nevro Corp. | 24 | $1,034 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 27 | $638 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 20 | $370 |
| Stryker | 1 | $303 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $240 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $233 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 2 | $226 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $205 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $201 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $116 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $79 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 1 | $73 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $44 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $43 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| GRT US Holding, 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.
- Evoke$1,900
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$984
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$944
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$896
- SUPERION$757
- PROCLAIM$743
- SPRINT PNS System$564
- SYNCHROMED$477
- Senza$397
- Omnia$375
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$303
- Intracept$263
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$253
- INTELLIS$172
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$165
- Superion ISS$131
- iFuse Implant$123
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$111
- PRECISION$105
How this compares
$16,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 136 | $2,383 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $1,035 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 46 | $904 |
| Gabapentin | 68 | $881 |
| Pregabalin | 35 | $483 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 18 | $456 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $368 |
| Baclofen | 16 | $193 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 15 | $177 |
| Naproxen | 26 | $176 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $119 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Oak Lawn
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$2.3M
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
- Steven CohenChicago$217K
- Albert SinghQuincy$212K
- Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
- Ryan KutaNaperville$114K
- Anthony LebarioElgin$87K
- Keith SchmidtHoffman Estates$81K
- Jay HurhLibertyville$71K
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.