Sivakanth Katta
Pain Medicine · Westerville, OHNPI 1740677699
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $31.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Medtronic$733
- Amgen$295
- AbbVie$234
- Abbott$147
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$139
- plus $553 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2157%
- Food & beverage$2,53381%
- Education$36212%
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 | 27 | $1,009 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $733 |
| Amgen | 6 | $295 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $234 |
| Abbott | 4 | $147 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 9 | $139 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 9 | $133 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $73 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $72 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$370
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$292
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$245
- AIMOVIG$231
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$124
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$109
- Proclaim IPG$106
- SUPERION$102
How this compares
$3,109 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.
Other pain medicine in Westerville
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.