Shyam Desai
Interventional Pain Medicine · Fairfield, CTNPI 1700415973
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,681 of the $14,017 with a category attached, or 69.1%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 38.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,934, more than ten times the $273 reported in 2022.
Across 162 payments — averaging $86.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$996
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$652
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,33631%
- Food & beverage$9,68169%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 50 | $5,387 |
| Boston Scientific | 26 | $2,586 |
| Globus Medical | 25 | $1,444 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 9 | $1,008 |
| Abbott | 7 | $996 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 12 | $652 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $462 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $248 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $228 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 5 | $201 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $114 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $71 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
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$2,966
- Senza$1,113
- INCEPTIV$924
- Evoke$902
- PROCLAIM$643
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$606
- SPRINT PNS System$481
- ETERNA$303
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$287
- mild Device Kit$248
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$160
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$155
- Intracept$142
- XEOMIN$125
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$123
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$122
- SYNCHROMEDII$116
- PRIALT$114
- ReActiv8$112
How this compares
Too few interventional pain medicine providers in Connecticutto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other interventional pain medicine in Fairfield
- Richard LucarelliVernon$71K
- Mohan VodapallyHamden$26K
- Mark ThimineurDerby$17K
- Robert BoolbolFarmington$15K
- Michael GrilleHartford$10K
- Jonathan KostWest Hartford$10K
- Pardeep SoodTrumbull$8K
- Vincent CarlesiDanbury$8K
- Dwight LighamNew Haven$7K
- Annette Macannuco WinslowWallingford$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.