Timothy Ko, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Erie, PANPI 1285847699
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,817 of the $7,028 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Boston Scientific accounts for 67.2% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,097 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $353 in 2025.
Across 229 payments — averaging $30.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$390
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$320
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$267
- Nevro Corp.$211
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$148
- plus $968 from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,21117%
- Food & beverage$5,81783%
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 | 97 | $4,724 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 44 | $390 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $320 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 17 | $267 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $211 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 8 | $148 |
| Abbott | 6 | $123 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 8 | $106 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $51 |
| Stryker | 1 | $49 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $34 |
| Novartis | 2 | $25 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Amgen | 1 | $13 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $11 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$1,304
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$249
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$170
- Evoke SCS$140
- Omnia$115
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$110
How this compares
$7,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 59 interventional pain medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
See all interventional pain medicine providers in Pennsylvania →
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 264 | $6,041 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 234 | $4,534 |
| Gabapentin | 348 | $3,879 |
| Celecoxib | 75 | $1,949 |
| Pregabalin | 84 | $1,608 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 71 | $1,383 |
| Lidocaine Hcl | 13 | $1,193 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 105 | $1,049 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 151 | $745 |
| Lidocaine | 12 | $741 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 40 | $703 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 13 | $608 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 28 | $453 |
| Baclofen | 20 | $386 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $379 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Erie
- Alberto CabantogErie$5K
- Jithendra RaiErie$1K
- Michael FishmanLebanon$670K
- David ProvenzanoSewickley$198K
- Michael FarrellPittsburgh$23K
- Farshad RashidianWest Chester$19K
- Chad MetzgerDarby$14K
- Jorge Rivero-BecerraPittsburgh$12K
- James BresnahanSpringfield$12K
- Jonathan SchollIndiana$11K
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.