Thomas Suchy, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Buffalo, NYNPI 1477999456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $19,894 of the $28,837 with a category attached, or 69.0%. Abbott accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $8,842 and has fallen 80.2% since, to $1,750 in 2025. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 602 payments — averaging $47.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$18K
- Nevro Corp.$3K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$1K
- Globus Medical$650
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,63120%
- Travel & lodging$3,31211%
- Food & beverage$19,89469%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 329 | $18,255 |
| Nevro Corp. | 75 | $3,342 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 14 | $1,415 |
| Boston Scientific | 41 | $1,366 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 17 | $1,265 |
| Globus Medical | 17 | $650 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 12 | $444 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $415 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $349 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 13 | $184 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 17 | $173 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 6 | $112 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $90 |
| Axogen | 1 | $90 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $73 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $72 |
| USWM, LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $62 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $45 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $41 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $37 |
| Stryker | 1 | $30 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$8,010
- Intracept$4,077
- OCTRODE$1,114
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$1,032
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$979
- Proclaim DRG IPG$890
- Senza$847
- mild Device Kit$679
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$555
- ETERNA$355
- iFuse Implant$144
- IonicRF$130
- Evoke SCS$115
- SUPERION$114
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$112
How this compares
$28,837 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 132 interventional pain medicine providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 15 | $186 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Buffalo
- Corey HunterNew York$446K
- Neel MehtaNew York$432K
- Hemant KaliaRochester$179K
- Martin FerrilloAlbany$164K
- George ChaseKew Gardens$102K
- Kimberly SackheimNew York$102K
- Suelane OuroNew York$68K
- Gerard DegregorisNew York$49K
- Jafar SiddiquiWilliamsville$45K
- Alexander WeingartenSyosset$43K
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.