Vivek Mahendru
Interventional Pain Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1316989023
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 298 payments — averaging $45.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$9K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$1K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$845
- Nevro Corp.$465
- Abbott$356
- Boston Scientific$192
- plus $915 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9767%
- Food & beverage$12,38692%
- Education$470%
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 | 193 | $9,256 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 19 | $1,382 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 38 | $845 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $465 |
| Abbott | 18 | $356 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $192 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $186 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $170 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 4 | $149 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $92 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Core Surgical Group | 1 | $45 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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
$13,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other interventional pain medicine in Austin
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
- Anjuli DesaiAustin$82K
- Paul leAustin$27K
- Martin ThaiAustin$23K
- Clayton AdamsAustin$22K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.