Uplekh Purewal, MD
Pain Medicine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1548203839
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 541 payments — averaging $38.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$7K
- Amgen$3K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$3K
- Nevro Corp.$3K
- Boston Scientific$921
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$603
- plus $4K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,94314%
- Travel & lodging$2,32211%
- Food & beverage$15,59574%
- Education$740%
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 | 285 | $7,450 |
| Amgen | 5 | $2,968 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 9 | $2,644 |
| Nevro Corp. | 55 | $2,600 |
| Boston Scientific | 56 | $921 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 14 | $603 |
| Globus Medical | 21 | $594 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 13 | $551 |
| Curonix LLC | 7 | $418 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 18 | $384 |
| MML US, Inc. | 9 | $347 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $239 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $213 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $212 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $153 |
| Axogen | 1 | $126 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $93 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Stryker | 1 | $31 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, 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.
- RAYOS$8,875
- Superion ISS$2,347
- Senza$770
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$560
- PROCLAIM$475
- mild Device Kit$308
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$286
- OCTRODE$264
- Omnia$256
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$238
- Zilretta$235
- Evoke$136
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$126
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$126
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$126
- ReActiv8$115
- Prospera$114
How this compares
$20,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 294 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 16 | $6,145 |
| Pregabalin | 152 | $2,465 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 146 | $2,166 |
| Lidocaine | 25 | $2,019 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 145 | $1,759 |
| Gabapentin | 154 | $1,563 |
| Cephalexin | 119 | $1,475 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 78 | $811 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 42 | $787 |
| EndocetOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $523 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $504 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 38 | $465 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 12 | $293 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 48 | $288 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 63 | $274 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Philadelphia
- Daniel GruenerPhiladelphia$2.9M
- Peter PryzbylkowskiPhiladelphia$508K
- Jonathan BeattyPhiladelphia$46K
- John FarrarPhiladelphia$37K
- Megan LinehanPhiladelphia$12K
- Dajie WangPhiladelphia$9K
- Ignacio BadiolaPhiladelphia$9K
- Yeshvant NavalgundGreensburg$388K
- Jack SmithWilliamsport$324K
- Sanjay GuptaBala Cynwyd$241K
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.