RxDoctor Payments Data

Amitabh Goswami

Interventional Pain Medicine · Fresno, CANPI 1447451539

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (45.3%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 75.7% of it on its own, with 50 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$100,812in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,294 payments — averaging $77.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$76K
  • Painteq LLC$9K
  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$3K
  • Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
  • Nalu Medical, Inc.$2K
  • Abbott$2K
  • plus $6K from 45 others
$16in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $16.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$16
$149,474in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $29,895 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$149K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$13,41913%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$45,68345%
  • Travel & lodging$5,2975%
  • Food & beverage$34,61234%
  • Education$1,8022%

General payments by program year

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$100,812 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 188 interventional pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,428,184
Medicare patients
964
Services billed
31,112

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl13$24,687
HorizantGabapentin Enacarbil21$15,018
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl12$11,840
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen320$4,520
ZtlidoLidocaine12$4,375
Lidocaine70$3,987
Gabapentin468$3,651
Duloxetine Hcl131$1,729
Clonidine14$1,290
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl20$1,167
Celecoxib29$838
Pregabalin23$594
Oxycodone Hcl20$487
Tramadol Hcl96$378
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl30$330

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Nucynta, Belbuca$84$36,52625 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Horizant$139$15,01821 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido$327$4,37512 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 188 interventional pain medicine providers in California.

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