Shehzad Choudry, MD
Pain Medicine · Orlando, FLNPI 1194836676
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $28,673 of the $43,593 with a category attached, or 65.8%. Medtronic accounts for 69.5% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in FL 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 214 payments — averaging $203.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$30K
- Avanos Medical$5K
- MML US, Inc.$3K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Nevro Corp.$916
- Boston Scientific$814
- plus $2K from 24 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $1681.97 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.
- Nevro Corp.$28K
- Curonix LLC$15K
- Globus Medical$3K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,67366%
- Travel & lodging$7,79918%
- Food & beverage$7,09016%
- Education$320%
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(2 entities) | 92 | $30,304 |
| Avanos Medical | 6 | $5,133 |
| MML US, Inc. | 12 | $3,097 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 9 | $1,026 |
| Nevro Corp. | 19 | $916 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $814 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 8 | $800 |
| Stryker | 2 | $295 |
| Abbott | 4 | $189 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 8 | $148 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $138 |
| Curonix LLC | 5 | $103 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $87 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 4 | $68 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Amgen | 4 | $59 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $22 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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 ADAPTIVESTIM$14,839
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$13,443
- COOLIEF$4,431
- ReActiv8$2,977
- Intracept$2,872
- mild Device Kit$913
- COOLIEF* COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY$553
- Senza$300
- Omnia$260
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$228
- Accurian$142
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$136
- OMNICURVE$131
- OPTABLATE$131
- Proclaim IPG$126
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$109
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$109
How this compares
$43,593 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 11 | $994 |
| Pregabalin | 49 | $968 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 47 | $779 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 34 | $755 |
| Gabapentin | 56 | $752 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 72 | $476 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 25 | $323 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $273 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $268 |
| Methocarbamol | 29 | $236 |
| Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium | 13 | $140 |
| Cephalexin | 21 | $134 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $115 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $111 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Orlando
- Taufiq AhmedOrlando$25K
- Jeffrey GudinMiami$356K
- Joseph PergolizziNaples$333K
- Ramon Cuevas-TrisanRiviera Beach$220K
- Navdeep JassalLakeland$163K
- Mark-Friedrich HurdleJacksonville$140K
- Rodolfo GariTampa$120K
- Stephen PylesOcala$115K
- Orlando FloreteJacksonville$86K
- Michael GreeneMiddleburg$73K
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.