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

Sailesh Arulkumar

Pain Medicine Oklahoma City, OK Medical Doctor

NPI 1174889778 CMS profile 2781844

800 Nw 9Th St Ste 201, Oklahoma City, OK 73106

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General payments

$161,986

352 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$95,268 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2020–2025

Through program year 2025, Sailesh Arulkumar of Oklahoma City, OK is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $161,986 across 352 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $95,268 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

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $32,159 69
2024 General $36,474 72
2023 General $36,517 67
2022 General $39,765 68
2021 General $13,362 37
2020 General $3,322 29
2019 General $386 10

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Sailesh Arulkumar were reported at $32,159. Among 2,779 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $458 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,401.

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Year Sailesh Arulkumar Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $386 $498 $126–$1,682 $163
2020 $3,322 $284 $80–$910 $114
2021 $13,362 $399 $112–$1,219 $132
2022 $39,765 $455 $137–$1,484 $149
2023 $36,517 $484 $128–$1,495 $160
2024 $36,474 $498 $131–$1,540 $164
2025 $32,159 $458 $124–$1,401 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Nalu Medical, Inc. $158,071 270 payments
  2. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. $1,055 11 payments
  3. Stryker Corporation $568 7 payments
  4. Boston Scientific Corporation $534 7 payments
  5. Medtronic USA, Inc. $443 8 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $402 24 payments
  7. Nevro Corp. $249 12 payments
  8. Vertos Medical, Inc. $229 4 payments
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $176 4 payments
  10. Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $122 1 payment
  11. Other $139 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $126,969 52 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $21,180 64 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $13,763 235 payments
  4. Education $74 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Nalu Neurostimulation System $158,071 270 payments
  2. Intracept Pain $1,220 13 payments
  3. Intracept Pain $854 6 payments
  4. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $317 2 payments
  5. mild Device Kit $229 4 payments
  6. Senza $209 10 payments
  7. ETERNA $202 11 payments
  8. Intracept Pain $201 5 payments
  9. Intracept Pain $201 5 payments
  10. Intracept Pain $201 5 payments
  11. Other $1,738 42 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 · 12 drugs

Part D claims

727

Median for Pain Management: 951

Drug cost

$16,864

Median for Pain Management: $26,034

Branded share of claims

53%

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 13 $5,820
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 278 $5,687
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 94 $1,713
Pregabalin Generic 58 $1,034
Tramadol Hcl Generic 110 $719
Fentanyl Generic 15 $658
Gabapentin Generic 29 $407
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 18 $257
Doxycycline Hyclate Generic 38 $218
Cephalexin Generic 33 $208

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 12 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 · 60 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$192,742

Of which drugs: $6,547

Medicare patients

503

Average age 73

Services billed

3,882

318 women, 185 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 36%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Depression 31%
Chronic kidney disease 29%
COPD 21%
Heart failure 19%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 39 530 $47

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.

Records

352 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

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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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