Has Usker Naqvi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,523 in general payments to Usker Naqvi, MD across 111 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 Usker Naqvi, 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 Usker Naqvi, 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.

Usker Naqvi, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Covington, GANPI 1700201746

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.5%), travel and lodging and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 55.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,989 and has fallen 90.7% since, to $464 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in GA 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.

$6,523in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 111 payments — averaging $58.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nevro Corp.$4K
Medtronic$2K
Baxter Healthcare$450
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$191
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$152
Boston Scientific$128
plus $50 from 2 others

$230in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $230.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$230

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,19034%
Food & beverage$3,88260%
Other$4507%

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
Nevro Corp.	59	$3,604
Medtronic(2 entities)	40	$1,948
Baxter Healthcare	2	$450
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$191
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	4	$152
Boston Scientific	1	$128
Curonix LLC	1	$36
Globus Medical	1	$14

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.

Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$1,782
INTELLIS$957
KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$156
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$128
MYSTIM$116
SPRINT PNS System$111

How this compares

$6,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 214 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$148,128

Medicare patients

265

Services billed

2,438

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	223	$2,977
Diclofenac Sodium	144	$2,160
Lidocaine	11	$1,141
Celecoxib	61	$821
Methocarbamol	81	$722
Methylprednisolone	94	$526
Ibuprofen	35	$363
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	50	$355
Tramadol Hcl	177	$353
Meloxicam	110	$222
Tizanidine Hcl	30	$212
Nabumetone	14	$204
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	41	$150
Naproxen	27	$141
Baclofen	24	$121

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Covington

Erik ShawAtlanta$175K
David TranAlpharetta$96K
Payal FadiaDecatur$66K
John MusserStockbridge$57K
Abana AzariahAtlanta$22K
Michael SchaufeleAtlanta$20K
Gerald ChaiLawrenceville$16K
Gerald BilskyAtlanta$16K
Aiwane IboayaColumbus$16K
Joseph HegartyBaxley$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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