Vishal Rekhala, DO
Pain Medicine · Poughkeepsie, NYNPI 1568801751
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 196 payments — averaging $60.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$8K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$454
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$310
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$292
- Si-bone, Inc.$190
- plus $993 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,10526%
- Food & beverage$8,68874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 111 | $7,943 |
| Boston Scientific | 34 | $1,611 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 7 | $454 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $310 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 13 | $292 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $190 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $187 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Abbott | 3 | $125 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $107 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $82 |
| Stryker | 1 | $72 |
| Vertex | 2 | $57 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$2,939
- ClosureFast$1,633
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$503
- Intracept$454
- INCEPTIV$372
- IOVERA SYSTEM$182
- SPRINT PNS System$171
- HemoBlast Bellows$153
- iFuse Implant$138
- INTELLIS$125
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$109
- Flexitouch Plus$107
- Entre Plus$107
How this compares
$11,793 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 503 pain medicine providers in New York.
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 | 208 | $2,222 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 84 | $433 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $284 |
| Methylprednisolone | 31 | $214 |
| Naproxen | 30 | $177 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 29 | $150 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 37 | $124 |
| Meloxicam | 45 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Poughkeepsie
- Gary SchwartzBrooklyn$756K
- Amitabh GulatiNew York$627K
- William CaldwellStony Brook$550K
- Brian DurkinPort Jefferson$459K
- Grace FordeNew Hyde Park$398K
- David SpinnerNew York$391K
- John MarkmanRochester$300K
- Naum ShaparinBronx$178K
- Ashraf HenryAmherst$168K
- Kenneth ChapmanStaten Island$160K
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.