Has Armen Haroutunian, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $143,060 in general payments to Armen Haroutunian, MD across 427 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Armen Haroutunian, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Armen Haroutunian, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Armen Haroutunian, MD

Pain Medicine · Westlake Village, CANPI 1588041412

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $113,522 of the $143,060 with a category attached, or 79.4%. Nalu Medical, Inc. accounts for 93.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$143,060in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 427 payments — averaging $335.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nalu Medical, Inc.$134K
Boston Scientific$4K
Abbott$1K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$914
Medtronic$889
Nevro Corp.$865
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$113,52279%
Travel & lodging$14,06810%
Food & beverage$15,44211%
Education$280%

General payments by program year

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Nalu Medical, Inc.	219	$134,098
Boston Scientific	60	$3,542
Abbott	48	$1,344
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	13	$914
Medtronic	28	$889
Nevro Corp.	17	$865
Painteq LLC	10	$254
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$211
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	5	$186
Avanos Medical	1	$140
Vertiflex, Inc.	4	$140
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	7	$100
Sonex Health, Inc.	1	$84
Globus Medical	3	$80
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$48
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$44
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$41
Vertex	1	$27
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$18
AbbVie	1	$16

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

$143,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$802,040

Medicare patients

851

Services billed

8,064

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Gabapentin	432	$4,168
Buprenorphine	14	$3,657
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	178	$2,758
Celecoxib	95	$2,656
Pregabalin	106	$1,523
Lidocaine	15	$1,128
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	53	$1,029
Oxycodone Hcl	58	$1,015
Tramadol Hcl	177	$1,000
Methocarbamol	106	$981
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	54	$888
Baclofen	46	$886
Duloxetine Hcl	36	$734
Buprenorphine Hcl	24	$705
Meloxicam	103	$579

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Westlake Village

Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
Samir ShethRoseville$356K
Einar OttestadStanford$352K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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