Has Wajde Dabah, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $37,203 in general payments to Wajde Dabah, MD across 963 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 Wajde Dabah, 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 Wajde Dabah, 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.

Wajde Dabah, MD

Pain Medicine · Hoffman Estates, ILNPI 1194024984

Payments from drug & device makers

$37,203in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 963 payments — averaging $38.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$7K
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$6K
Boston Scientific$3K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
AbbVie$2K
Nevro Corp.$2K
plus $15K from 54 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,0003%
Travel & lodging$5,39715%
Food & beverage$28,49977%
Education$2,3076%

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	149	$7,036
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	51	$5,730
Boston Scientific	73	$3,204
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	18	$2,333
AbbVie(2 entities)	132	$2,282
Nevro Corp.	12	$1,920
Vertos Medical, Inc.	8	$1,514
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	52	$1,260
Amgen(2 entities)	66	$1,155
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$1,035
Painteq LLC	9	$998
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$662
UCB, Inc.	35	$642
Medtronic	23	$617
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	37	$612
Johnson & Johnson(3 entities)	32	$582
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	46	$494
Vertiflex, Inc.	5	$385
Stryker	3	$340
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	18	$333
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	19	$332
Lilly USA, LLC	17	$311
IBSA Pharma Inc.	17	$299
MML US, Inc.	4	$294
Neuronetics, Inc.	4	$279
Smith+Nephew	2	$191
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	7	$175
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	11	$174
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	8	$143
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	3	$135
GRT US Holding, Inc.	6	$133
Almatica Pharma LLC	7	$129
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$112
Vertex	4	$110
Nalu Medical, Inc.	6	$108
Averitas Pharma Inc.	4	$99
Bausch Health US, LLC	5	$84
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$83
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$68
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$63
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	5	$62
Novartis	2	$53
GSK	2	$52
Valinor Pharma, LLC	2	$44
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$42
Orthogenrx Inc.	2	$42
Pfizer	2	$42
Antares Pharma, Inc.	2	$34
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$31
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$31
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$30
Lundbeck LLC	1	$28
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$28
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$26
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$23
Avanos Medical	1	$22
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$20
Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.	1	$20
Sanofi	1	$19
Curonix LLC	1	$18

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.

PROCLAIM$2,523
HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,971
Intracept$1,947
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$1,477
Senza$1,400
mild Device Kit$1,380
Proclaim IPG$1,176
PAINTEQ$854
iFuse Implant$464
Axium INS DRG IPG$376
Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$292
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$273
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$267
Superion ISS$235
NEUROSTAR TMS THERAPY$195
STAR$168
ReActiv8$162
Axium$156
Prospera$150
SPINEJACK$148

How this compares

$37,203 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$384,467

Medicare patients

262

Services billed

4,364

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	32	$662
Gabapentin	27	$316
Tizanidine Hcl	15	$286
Duloxetine Hcl	29	$198
Pregabalin	11	$173
Tramadol Hcl	14	$69
Meloxicam	14	$10

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Hoffman Estates

Keith SchmidtHoffman Estates$81K
Ricardo VallejoBloomington$3.1M
David DickersonEvanston$766K
Albert SinghQuincy$357K
Steven CohenChicago$292K
Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
Ryan KutaNaperville$114K
Anthony LebarioElgin$87K
Francesco VetriDecatur$80K

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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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