Stuart Hough, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Rockville, MDNPI 1568417871
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,888 of the $3,104 with a category attached, or 60.8%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated at 36.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,356, 8.0 times the $169 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in MD, where the typical reported total is $3,506.
Across 49 payments — averaging $63.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$540
- Nevro Corp.$329
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$328
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$228
- Medtronic$210
- plus $350 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,21639%
- Food & beverage$1,88861%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $1,121 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 7 | $540 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $329 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $328 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $228 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $210 |
| Globus Medical | 6 | $158 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $122 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
How this compares
$3,104 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 56 interventional pain medicine providers in Maryland.
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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 | 58 | $1,228 |
| Pregabalin | 36 | $1,005 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 51 | $871 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 41 | $797 |
| Gabapentin | 53 | $695 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 26 | $421 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 20 | $358 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 26 | $333 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 13 | $263 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 59 | $175 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $166 |
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Rockville
- Marc LoevRockville$318K
- Ramani PeruvembaRockville$7K
- Lester ZuckermanRockville$1K
- M-Irfan SulemanRockville$698
- Mark ColemanPikesville$1.3M
- Anish PatelFrederick$311K
- Aneesh SinglaSalisbury$167K
- Charles SimmonsAnnapolis$62K
- Ali El-MohandesHagerstown$57K
- Michael WongBel Air$31K
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.