Shiqiang Tian, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · East Providence, RINPI 1275821738
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 108 payments — averaging $71.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Nevro Corp.$874
- plus $783 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,89751%
- Food & beverage$3,81949%
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 | 16 | $1,500 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 19 | $1,316 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 12 | $1,174 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,042 |
| Stryker | 9 | $1,027 |
| Nevro Corp. | 23 | $874 |
| Globus Medical | 13 | $445 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $152 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $93 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Myoscience Inc. | 1 | $36 |
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.
- Intracept$3,466
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$956
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$839
- Senza$512
- INCEPTIV$393
- Omnia$349
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$286
- Axium INS DRG IPG$143
- PROCLAIM$118
How this compares
Too few interventional pain medicine providers in Rhode Islandto 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $14,273 |
| Gabapentin | 52 | $1,164 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 94 | $1,154 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 80 | $936 |
| Cephalexin | 56 | $606 |
| Meloxicam | 74 | $348 |
| Topiramate | 15 | $259 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 16 | $208 |
| Ibuprofen | 15 | $158 |
| Methylprednisolone | 18 | $117 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $59 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $47 |
| Lorazepam | 25 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in East Providence
- Su Gym KimProvidence$947
- Timothy OlsonWesterly$405
- Adrian HamburgerWesterly$136
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.