Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Fei Cao

Pain Medicine Kansas City, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1598299687 CMS profile 11305503

2101 Charlotte St, Kansas City, MO 64108

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General payments

$6,641

67 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Fei Cao of Kansas City, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,641 across 67 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 72nd percentile of Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $405 7
2024 General $875 17
2023 General $722 11
2022 General $4,524 31
2021 General $116 1

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Fei Cao were reported at $405. Among 95 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $405 and the middle half received between $116 and $1,740.

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Year Fei Cao Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $298 $103–$1,153 $163
2020 $0 $188 $57–$916 $114
2021 $116 $365 $109–$1,150 $132
2022 $4,524 $498 $104–$1,575 $149
2023 $722 $334 $108–$1,267 $160
2024 $875 $544 $144–$1,302 $164
2025 $405 $405 $116–$1,740 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $4,105 26 payments
  2. SPR Therapeutics, Inc $825 14 payments
  3. Nalu Medical, Inc. $448 7 payments
  4. Boston Scientific Corporation $328 4 payments
  5. Tris Pharma Inc $206 2 payments
  6. Nevro Corp. $191 2 payments
  7. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $150 1 payment
  8. Averitas Pharma Inc. $136 3 payments
  9. Tonix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $77 1 payment
  10. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $54 1 payment
  11. Other $120 6 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,352 57 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $3,289 10 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $1,759 15 payments
  2. PROCLAIM Neuromodulation $1,211 6 payments
  3. PRODIGY $1,114 4 payments
  4. SPRINT PNS System $825 14 payments
  5. Nalu Neurostimulation System $448 7 payments
  6. Omnia $191 2 payments
  7. Qutenza $171 5 payments
  8. SPRAVATO $150 1 payment
  9. Quillichew ER $125 1 payment
  10. Quillivant $125 1 payment
  11. Other $599 11 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 · 21 drugs

Part D claims

1,599

Median for Pain Management: 951

Drug cost

$78,510

Median for Pain Management: $26,034

Branded share of claims

10.8%

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
Buprenorphine-Naloxone Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl Brand 130 $24,155
Buprenorphine Generic 65 $12,270
Savella Milnacipran Hcl Brand 24 $12,058
Pregabalin Generic 247 $7,901
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 334 $6,052
Lidocaine Generic 85 $4,969
Gabapentin Generic 166 $2,903
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 67 $2,238
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 78 $1,276
Amitriptyline Hcl Generic 77 $898

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 21 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 · 42 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$19,187

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

95

Average age 60

Services billed

315

58 women, 37 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
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 68%
Depression 41%
Diabetes 35%
COPD 22%
Ischemic heart disease 21%
Chronic kidney disease 21%
Heart failure 16%

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. $112
$112 — —
Dyanavel XR
  • Tris Pharma Inc $81
$81 — —

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

67 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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