Steven Cohen, MD
Pain Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1578515482
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $163,361 of the $216,879 with a category attached, or 75.3%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by SPR Therapeutics, Inc at 33.8% of the total. Among pain medicine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 109 payments — averaging $1989.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$73K
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$61K
- Avanos Medical$37K
- Merck$15K
- Vertex$13K
- AbbVie$10K
- plus $8K from 9 others
Across 24 payments — averaging $3208.88 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.
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$43K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$32K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$163,36175%
- Speaking & faculty fees$38,16718%
- Travel & lodging$3,7202%
- Food & beverage$11,5625%
- Education$700%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 27 | $73,380 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $61,025 |
| Avanos Medical | 9 | $36,929 |
| Merck | 18 | $14,691 |
| Vertex | 8 | $13,285 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $9,564 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 5 | $5,860 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 11 | $682 |
| Abbott | 2 | $593 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $397 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $169 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $103 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $25 |
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.
- SPRINT PNS System$73,258
- COOLIEF$19,042
- COOLED RFA$17,825
- ZTLido$13,838
- Qutenza$4,610
- JOURNAVX$904
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$473
- Nimbus$418
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$335
- Evoke SCS$163
- Eon Family of SCS IPGs$120
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$103
How this compares
$216,879 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $305 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Chicago
- Tian YuChicago$32K
- Tetyana MarshallChicago$12K
- William LandphairChicago$12K
- Rani ChovatiyaChicago$11K
- Boss PoviengChicago$10K
- Robert HardenChicago$8K
- Michael WarrenChicago$7K
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$2.3M
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
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.