Sherif Zaky, MD
Pain Medicine · Sandusky, OHNPI 1801060157
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 128 payments — averaging $33.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- AbbVie$535
- Stryker$382
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$141
- Nevro Corp.$91
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$90
- plus $867 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,29130%
- Food & beverage$2,93169%
- Education$241%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $2,139 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 31 | $535 |
| Stryker | 6 | $382 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $141 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $91 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $90 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $85 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Abbott | 3 | $67 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $57 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 4 | $51 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Amgen | 3 | $46 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 4 | $42 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Vertex | 2 | $38 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Merz North America, 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.
- SUPERION$1,178
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$282
- SPINEJACK$199
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$182
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$170
- mild Device Kit$106
How this compares
$4,245 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 44 | $4,784 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 186 | $2,693 |
| Gabapentin | 200 | $1,906 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 89 | $1,566 |
| Pregabalin | 35 | $635 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 50 | $275 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 50 | $260 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $102 |
| Meloxicam | 35 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Sandusky
- Priyesh MehtaDayton$2.2M
- Joseph AtallahToledo$1.2M
- Michael DankoLoveland$1.1M
- Tristan WeaverColumbus$799K
- Nagy MekhailCleveland$687K
- Robert BolashCleveland$640K
- Alexander EscobarToledo$639K
- Henry VuceticWilloughby$510K
- Tammy DannDayton$431K
- Jijun XuCleveland$332K
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.