Tim Chowdhury, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Dublin, OHNPI 1154491611
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,260 of the $2,072 with a category attached, or 60.8%. Medtronic accounts for 71.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,533 and has fallen 92.9% since, to $108 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $5,193.
Across 33 payments — averaging $62.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Curonix LLC$205
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$121
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$99
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$95
- Pfizer$55
- plus $27 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,26061%
- Food & beverage$81139%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $1,471 |
| Curonix LLC | 5 | $205 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $121 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $99 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $95 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $55 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$2,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 67 interventional pain medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 45 | $18,590 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 11 | $13,302 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 447 | $10,447 |
| Gabapentin | 389 | $3,603 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 186 | $3,354 |
| Methadone Hcl | 218 | $3,099 |
| Pregabalin | 115 | $2,756 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 227 | $2,066 |
| Celecoxib | 33 | $1,760 |
| Lidocaine | 23 | $1,709 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 80 | $1,447 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 38 | $1,030 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 80 | $799 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 12 | $409 |
| Ibuprofen | 72 | $361 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Nucynta Er | $121 | $13,30211 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 25th percentile of 67 interventional pain medicine providers in Ohio.
Other interventional pain medicine in Dublin
- Kristen BamberDublin$11K
- Michael OrzoDublin$10K
- Kyle SmithDublin$5K
- Krishna DeshpandeDublin$1K
- Gladstone McDowellColumbus$660K
- Humam AkbikFairfield$116K
- Sara NashiCincinnati$116K
- Jaudat MahmoodKent$97K
- Omar AliSpringfield$67K
- Dustin ReynoldsWesterville$61K
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.