Has Sunil Arora, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,088 in general payments to Sunil Arora, MD across 221 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Sunil Arora, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Sunil Arora, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Sunil Arora, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Wilmington, NCNPI 1558366385

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,741 of the $6,088 with a category attached, or 77.9%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 53.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,055, more than ten times the $140 reported in 2019.

$6,088in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 221 payments — averaging $27.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Abbott$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$450
Nevro Corp.$414
Medtronic$189
Globus Medical$150
plus $444 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,34722%
Food & beverage$4,74178%

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	91	$3,275
Abbott	63	$1,166
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	5	$450
Nevro Corp.	17	$414
Medtronic(2 entities)	15	$189
Globus Medical	6	$150
Vertos Medical, Inc.	7	$129
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	4	$89
Stryker	4	$74
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$40
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	2	$30
Painteq LLC	2	$30
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$20
Sonex Health, Inc.	1	$18
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	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.

How this compares

$6,088 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 45 interventional pain medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$530,652

Medicare patients

577

Services billed

21,310

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
Buprenorphine	13	$5,233
Fentanyl	15	$1,353
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	69	$1,351
Gabapentin	110	$1,259
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	34	$765
Methadone Hcl	40	$654
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	28	$483
Oxycodone Hcl	24	$429
Tizanidine Hcl	38	$328
Pregabalin	29	$265
Methocarbamol	17	$260
Tramadol Hcl	40	$222
Topiramate	14	$207
Duloxetine Hcl	11	$168
Meloxicam	27	$151

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Wilmington

John KnabWilmington$9K
Francis PecoraroWilmington$3K
Charles DanielsWilmington$2K
Timothy ChafinAhoskie$59K
Robert WilsonSalisbury$37K
John MansfieldAsheville$25K
Erin ChaneyJacksonville$22K
Kevin CostelloGreenville$22K
Scott JohnstonJacksonville$20K
Harsh GovilStatesville$19K

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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.

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