Has Tamer Ghaly, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,832 in general payments to Tamer Ghaly, MD across 175 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 Tamer Ghaly, 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 Tamer Ghaly, 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.

Tamer Ghaly, MD

Pain Medicine · Farmington, CTNPI 1982882239

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,832in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 175 payments — averaging $39.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$1K
Amgen$908
Abbott$531
Bioventus LLC$379
Vertos Medical, Inc.$359
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$303
plus $3K from 39 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3475%
Food & beverage$6,48595%

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	23	$1,149
Amgen(2 entities)	23	$908
Abbott	20	$531
Bioventus LLC	2	$379
Vertos Medical, Inc.	6	$359
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	4	$303
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$293
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$250
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	10	$241
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	8	$239
AbbVie	6	$226
Pfizer	10	$174
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	3	$147
Nevro Corp.	1	$135
Intuitive Surgical	1	$135
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$104
Baxter Healthcare	1	$104
Werfen USA LLC	1	$92
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$92
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$91
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$82
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$82
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$76
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$61
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$57
Organon	3	$50
GSK	2	$49
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	2	$41
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	2	$34
Sobi, Inc	2	$33
Vertex	1	$27
Curonix LLC	1	$27
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$26
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$24
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$22
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$22
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$22
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
AstraZeneca	1	$22
Globus Medical	1	$20
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$20
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$17
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$16
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$15
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$10

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

$6,832 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 69 pain medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$835,834

Medicare patients

565

Services billed

42,127

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
Gabapentin	145	$1,639
Tizanidine Hcl	103	$1,195
Lidocaine	13	$809
Diclofenac Sodium	25	$485
Celecoxib	12	$454
Tramadol Hcl	101	$342
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	40	$336
Ibuprofen	34	$269
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	20	$267
Meloxicam	69	$151
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	28	$151
Lorazepam	13	$13

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Farmington

Martand ChhibberFarmington$3K
Harsh ShahFarmington$961
Brian GrosbergWest Hartford$654K
Sandeep JoharWaterbury$329K
David GutierrezNew Haven$151K
Katherine PodrazaMystic$83K
Donna Ann ThomasNew Haven$22K
Ofer WellischStamford$18K
Yili HuangNew Haven$18K
Jared RosenbergGreenwich$12K

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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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