Sherif Costandi, MD
Interventional Pain Management · Cleveland, OHNPI 1811284458
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 319 payments — averaging $2703.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- MML US, Inc.$413K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$222K
- Medtronic$156K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$47K
- Stryker$23K
- Boston Scientific$565
- plus $2K from 9 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $167.62 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.
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$814
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$527
What the payments were for
- Grants$751%
- Travel & lodging$1,05221%
- Food & beverage$3,91678%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MML US, Inc. | 41 | $412,939 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 141 | $221,667 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 66 | $155,613 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 24 | $47,151 |
| Stryker | 8 | $22,786 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $565 |
| Abbott | 6 | $496 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 12 | $388 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $362 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $180 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $43 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- ReActiv8$865
- Evoke$687
- mild Device Kit$531
- Intracept$395
- Evoke SCS$339
- PROCLAIM$304
- Senza$265
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$180
- Octrode SCS Leads$140
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$128
- Cios Fusion$112
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$110
How this compares
Too few interventional pain management providers in Ohioto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 106 | $903 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 28 | $296 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $220 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $148 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain management in Cleveland
- Osama MalakLorain$4K
- Michael StretanskiMansfield$4K
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.