Armin Farajzadeh Deroee, MD
Pain Medicine · Visalia, CANPI 1952600389
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,382 of the $8,518 with a category attached, or 74.9%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 31.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,319 and has fallen 79.4% since, to $478 in 2025.
Across 344 payments — averaging $24.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- AbbVie$1K
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$819
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$654
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$562
- Nevro Corp.$362
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,13625%
- Food & beverage$6,38275%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 42 | $2,681 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 84 | $1,347 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 47 | $819 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $654 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 38 | $562 |
| Nevro Corp. | 15 | $362 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $244 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 16 | $231 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $198 |
| Globus Medical | 7 | $169 |
| Novartis | 9 | $145 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $138 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $131 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 4 | $130 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $119 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $108 |
| Amgen | 3 | $96 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Abbott | 2 | $34 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- ADAPTIVESTIM$1,294
- SPRINT PNS System$625
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$475
- Senza$143
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$139
- TARGETSTIM$105
How this compares
$8,518 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 26 | $7,468 |
| Pregabalin | 127 | $3,168 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 106 | $2,998 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 81 | $1,959 |
| Gabapentin | 63 | $1,237 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 38 | $724 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $613 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $114 |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | 12 | $94 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 13 | $90 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $60 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $58 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $57 |
| Alprazolam | 25 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Visalia
- 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
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.