Has Azita Far, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,584 in general payments to Azita Far, MD across 28 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 Azita Far, 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 Azita Far, 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.

Azita Far, MD

Pain Medicine · West Hollywood, CANPI 1952391542

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.7%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baxter Healthcare at 53.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,925, 2.6 times the $729 reported in 2019.

$3,584in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $127.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Baxter Healthcare$2K
Johnson & Johnson$280
Boston Scientific$237
Vertos Medical, Inc.$151
Merz North America, Inc.$144
Nalu Medical, Inc.$143
plus $703 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,92554%
Speaking & faculty fees$40%
Food & beverage$1,65446%

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
Baxter Healthcare	1	$1,925
Johnson & Johnson	4	$280
Boston Scientific	3	$237
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$151
Merz North America, Inc.	2	$144
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$143
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$139
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$117
Nevro Corp.	2	$116
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$109
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$84
AbbVie	2	$49
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$46
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$44

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

$3,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$118,369

Medicare patients

309

Services billed

1,168

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	33	$21,661
Diclofenac Sodium	31	$8,192
Lidocaine	37	$5,749
Fentanyl	33	$3,228
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	131	$3,135
Gabapentin	124	$1,511
Oxycodone Hcl	82	$1,375
Pregabalin	24	$688
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	29	$543
Duloxetine Hcl	15	$465
Hydromorphone Hcl	29	$420
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	13	$343
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine	11	$265
Baclofen	38	$241
Tramadol Hcl	50	$139

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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