Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ajit Shrestha

Interventional Pain Medicine Salisbury, MD Medical Doctor

NPI 1790914273 CMS profile 1069162

264 Tilghman Rd, Salisbury, MD 21804

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General payments

$2,728

73 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Ajit Shrestha of Salisbury, MD is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,728 across 73 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 41st percentile of Interventional Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $270 3
2024 General $401 13
2023 General $624 21
2022 General $327 8
2021 General $374 11
2020 General $61 2
2019 General $672 15

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ajit Shrestha
  • Interventional Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Interventional Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ajit Shrestha were reported at $270. Among 1,891 Interventional Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $657 and the middle half received between $184 and $1,753.

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Year Ajit Shrestha Interventional Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $672 $684 $216–$2,079 $163
2020 $61 $382 $122–$1,109 $114
2021 $374 $552 $167–$1,554 $132
2022 $327 $605 $187–$1,924 $149
2023 $624 $671 $195–$1,915 $160
2024 $401 $684 $206–$1,837 $164
2025 $270 $657 $184–$1,753 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $1,583 41 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $248 5 payments
  3. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $167 10 payments
  4. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. $158 1 payment
  5. Curonix LLC $142 1 payment
  6. Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. $136 5 payments
  7. Averitas Pharma Inc. $92 4 payments
  8. SI-BONE, Inc. $54 1 payment
  9. SPR Therapeutics, Inc $52 1 payment
  10. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $49 1 payment
  11. Other $46 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $2,634 72 payments
  2. Grant $94 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs $316 7 payments
  2. ETERNA $272 4 payments
  3. Axium INS DRG IPG $213 5 payments
  4. AXIUM $159 5 payments
  5. BELBUCA $158 9 payments
  6. Intracept Pain $158 1 payment
  7. Intracept Pain $158 1 payment
  8. Intracept Pain $158 1 payment
  9. Intracept Pain $158 1 payment
  10. INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM $154 4 payments
  11. Other $1,353 40 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 30 drugs

Part D claims

4,008

Median for Pain Management: 951

Drug cost

$114,103

Median for Pain Management: $26,034

Branded share of claims

27%

Median for Pain Management: 29.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 69 $39,937
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 25 $9,656
Gabapentin Generic 702 $8,446
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 433 $8,333
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 354 $7,449
Nucynta Er Tapentadol Hcl Brand 14 $6,851
Pregabalin Generic 227 $5,035
Tramadol Hcl Generic 638 $4,677
Lidocaine Generic 25 $4,552
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 266 $4,297

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 30 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,732 Part D prescribers listed as Pain Management; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 37 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$171,534

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

602

Average age 73

Services billed

5,031

383 women, 219 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 40%
Ischemic heart disease 38%
Depression 33%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
COPD 24%
Atrial fibrillation 21%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

2 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
Qutenza
  • Averitas Pharma Inc. $76
$76 — —
BELBUCA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $36
$36 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

73 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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