Arthur Zepeda, MD
Pain Medicine · Fullerton, CANPI 1184718447
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 328 payments — averaging $35.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Abbott$679
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$679
- Curonix LLC$360
- plus $3K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2412%
- Food & beverage$11,20997%
- Education$881%
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) | 118 | $4,465 |
| Boston Scientific | 29 | $1,178 |
| Nevro Corp. | 24 | $1,177 |
| Abbott | 8 | $679 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 8 | $679 |
| Curonix LLC | 10 | $360 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 12 | $344 |
| Painteq LLC | 6 | $306 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $285 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 14 | $230 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 14 | $222 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $194 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 11 | $191 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $170 |
| Saol Therapeutics Inc. | 4 | $156 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 4 | $125 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $93 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $93 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $71 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 4 | $67 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $42 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $28 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 1 | $12 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,235
- INTELLIS$898
- SPRINT PNS System$519
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$458
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$423
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$362
- Omnia$290
- Senza$256
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$200
- Licart$125
- FLECTOR$125
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$123
- Proclaim IPG$117
- LIORESAL$110
How this compares
$11,539 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 25 | $15,280 |
| Fentanyl | 44 | $12,777 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 235 | $5,129 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 132 | $3,889 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 40 | $2,942 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 82 | $2,699 |
| Gabapentin | 171 | $2,348 |
| Pregabalin | 103 | $2,224 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 72 | $1,655 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 83 | $1,481 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $890 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 77 | $831 |
| Baclofen | 40 | $719 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 50 | $606 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 12 | $430 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Fullerton
- Shveta JainFullerton$351K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Xiang QianRedwood City$941K
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.