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

Sauman Rafii

Pain Medicine Austin, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1811128887 CMS profile 1353927

12176 N Mopac Expy Ste D, Austin, TX 78758

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General payments

$23,504

490 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, Sauman Rafii of Austin, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $23,504 across 490 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 92nd 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 $3,480 64
2024 General $6,498 125
2023 General $3,790 105
2022 General $3,127 70
2021 General $2,224 39
2020 General $867 17
2019 General $3,518 70

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Sauman Rafii were reported at $3,480. 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 Sauman Rafii Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $3,518 $498 $126–$1,682 $163
2020 $867 $284 $80–$910 $114
2021 $2,224 $399 $112–$1,219 $132
2022 $3,127 $455 $137–$1,484 $149
2023 $3,790 $484 $128–$1,495 $160
2024 $6,498 $498 $131–$1,540 $164
2025 $3,480 $458 $124–$1,401 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $5,026 84 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $3,301 56 payments
  3. Abbott Laboratories $3,186 65 payments
  4. Vertiflex, Inc. $1,980 18 payments
  5. SI-BONE, Inc. $1,704 19 payments
  6. Spinal Simplicity, LLC $1,407 26 payments
  7. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. $1,142 11 payments
  8. AbbVie, Inc. $733 32 payments
  9. Nalu Medical, Inc. $724 12 payments
  10. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $660 31 payments
  11. Other $3,642 136 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $21,333 478 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $2,135 10 payments
  3. Education $21 1 payment
  4. Gift $15 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. PROCLAIM $2,085 50 payments
  2. Superion ISS $1,980 18 payments
  3. INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM $1,668 30 payments
  4. HA MINUTEMAN G3-R $1,407 26 payments
  5. Intracept $850 8 payments
  6. INCEPTIV $820 14 payments
  7. IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM $810 4 payments
  8. Nalu Neurostimulation System $724 12 payments
  9. GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT $699 15 payments
  10. General - Pain Management $661 11 payments
  11. Other $12,981 351 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 · 23 drugs

Part D claims

2,186

Median for Pain Management: 951

Drug cost

$89,547

Median for Pain Management: $26,034

Branded share of claims

62.7%

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
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 947 $28,756
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 44 $18,603
Aimovig Autoinjector Erenumab-Aooe Brand 12 $9,589
Fentanyl Generic 53 $8,455
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 268 $6,259
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 15 $4,743
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 196 $3,559
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 53 $1,883
Celecoxib Generic 37 $1,478
Hydromorphone Hcl Generic 72 $1,193

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 23 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 · 49 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$136,644

Of which drugs: $4,161

Medicare patients

249

Average age 70

Services billed

5,943

151 women, 98 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 74%
Depression 38%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Diabetes 26%
Chronic kidney disease 19%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
COPD 17%
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, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 Office 18 91 $513
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 43 3,100 $317
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg J1030 Office 11 12 $60
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 18 295 $26
Injection, midazolam hydrochloride, per 1 mg J2250 Office 32 131 $14
Injection, fentanyl citrate, 0.1 mg J3010 Office 12 14 $10

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 16 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
BOTOX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $176
$176 — —
NURTEC ODT
  • PFIZER INC. $109
$109 — —
RELISTOR
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $93
$93 — —
VYEPTI
  • Lundbeck LLC $88
$88 — —
BELBUCA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $78
$78 — —

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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Records

490 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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