Who Paid My Doc
Ellen Lin
Pain Medicine San Antonio, TX Medical Doctor
NPI 1548273501 CMS profile 296394
255 E Sonterra Blvd Ste 216, Advanced Spine And Pain Center, San Antonio, TX 78258
General payments
$118,027
Research payments
$21,487
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$133,201
Through program year 2025, Ellen Lin of San Antonio, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $118,027 across 1,488 general payments and $21,487 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $133,201 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $7,608 | 180 | |
| 2024 | General | $8,690 | 133 | |
| 2023 | General | $4,269 | 127 | |
| 2022 | General | $9,600 | 151 | |
| 2022 | Research | $21,441 | 3 | |
| 2021 | General | $15,201 | 214 | |
| 2020 | General | $19,916 | 260 | |
| 2020 | Research | $45 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $52,743 | 423 |
Beside peers
- Ellen Lin
- Pain Medicine median
- Middle half of Pain Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Ellen Lin were reported at $7,608. Among 1,144 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $402 and the middle half received between $130 and $1,173.
Show as a table
| Year | Ellen Lin | Pain Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $52,743 | $409 | $115–$1,311 | $163 |
| 2020 | $19,916 | $214 | $66–$666 | $114 |
| 2021 | $15,201 | $299 | $84–$899 | $132 |
| 2022 | $9,600 | $335 | $103–$1,149 | $149 |
| 2023 | $4,269 | $376 | $114–$1,228 | $160 |
| 2024 | $8,690 | $387 | $115–$1,173 | $164 |
| 2025 | $7,608 | $402 | $130–$1,173 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 34 drugsPart D claims
2,697
Drug cost
$425,810
Branded share of claims
52.7%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nucynta Tapentadol Hcl | Brand | 99 | $174,579 | |
| Nucynta Er Tapentadol Hcl | Brand | 52 | $104,438 | |
| Belbuca Buprenorphine Hcl | Brand | 73 | $53,865 | |
| Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate | Brand | 19 | $34,356 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 975 | $25,090 | |
| Buprenorphine | Generic | 30 | $11,055 | |
| Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine | Brand | 127 | $3,332 | |
| Baclofen | Generic | 197 | $2,243 | |
| Tramadol Hcl Er Tramadol Hcl | Brand | 32 | $2,058 | |
| Pregabalin | Generic | 111 | $1,881 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 34 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 1,476 Part D prescribers listed as Interventional Pain Management; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 71 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$870,272
Medicare patients
964
Services billed
19,734
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 33% | |
| Diabetes | 31% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 28% | |
| Depression | 25% | |
| Osteoporosis | 21% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 16% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 133 | 11,857 | $1,194 |
| Injection, diazepam, up to 5 mg J3360 | Office | 82 | 95 | $400 |
| Low osmolar contrast material, 200-299 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9966 | Office | 258 | 1,130 | $321 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 | Office | 34 | 38 | $275 |
| Injection, midazolam hydrochloride, per 1 mg J2250 | Office | 342 | 1,412 | $153 |
| Injection, cefazolin sodium, 500 mg J0690 | Office | 53 | 176 | $110 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 | Office | 21 | 22 | $96 |
| Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 | Office | 461 | 847 | $80 |
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
First 5 of 15 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crysvita |
|
$194 | — | — |
| Nucynta |
|
$117 | 151 | — |
| ZAVZPRET |
|
$109 | — | — |
| BELBUCA |
|
$107 | 73 | — |
| NURTEC ODT |
|
$94 | 19 | — |
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.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.