RxDoctor Payments Data

Baominh Vinh, MD

Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1578707303

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $27,223 of the $44,100 with a category attached, or 61.7%. It is spread thinly across 60 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.6%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,336 and has fallen 63.8% since, to $5,186 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in TX 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.

$44,100in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 903 payments — averaging $48.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$6K
  • Medtronic$4K
  • Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$4K
  • Boston Scientific$3K
  • Nevro Corp.$2K
  • Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
  • plus $22K from 54 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,1005%
  • Travel & lodging$13,31230%
  • Food & beverage$27,22362%
  • Education$140%
  • Gifts$2491%
  • Entertainment$1,2013%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated20$6,428
Medtronic(2 entities)47$3,744
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.39$3,708
Boston Scientific36$3,432
Nevro Corp.31$2,299
Vertiflex, Inc.22$2,238
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.30$2,088
Abbott32$1,808
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.18$1,783
AbbVie(2 entities)62$1,329
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$1,165
Spinal Simplicity, LLC13$1,143
Nalu Medical, Inc.19$864
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.60$818
Vertos Medical, Inc.10$795
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC39$775
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC53$762
MDD US Operations, LLC27$712
Tersera Therapeutics LLC26$699
Painteq LLC15$651
MML US, Inc.15$649
Pfizer20$463
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.26$419
Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.1$352
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.22$350
Biotronik NRO, Inc.6$324
Amgen(2 entities)14$302
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.15$293
Globus Medical4$272
Merz North America, Inc.9$254
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.25$223
Si-bone, Inc.4$201
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.11$186
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.11$183
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.9$180
Novartis9$162
GRT US Holding, Inc.3$157
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.7$129
Vertex4$127
IBSA Pharma Inc.8$126
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$120
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.7$107
Johnson & Johnson8$103
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.3$97
VGI Medical, LLC1$87
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$76
Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc.5$71
Lilly USA, LLC4$70
Almatica Pharma LLC4$65
Piramal Critical Care4$62
Redhill Biopharma Inc.3$47
Baudax Bio Inc.2$43
Eisai Inc.2$41
Zimmer Biomet2$40
Masimo Corporation2$39
Innovation Technologies Inc2$39
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC2$38
Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.1$35
Flowonix Medical Incorporated2$34
Bausch Health US, LLC1$33

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

$44,100 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$351,778
Medicare patients
220
Services billed
12,681

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
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl86$70,503
Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate42$69,344
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,872$56,657
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate40$36,684
LinzessLinaclotide55$29,803
Lidocaine317$26,006
Buprenorphine116$25,008
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl22$24,236
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate53$21,022
HorizantGabapentin Enacarbil23$20,922
Fentanyl174$18,620
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe19$13,979
Gabapentin951$13,051
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen415$11,936
Oxycodone Hcl510$10,684

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.Belbuca, Xtampza Er$818$107,187126 claims
PfizerNurtec Odt$463$69,34442 claims
AbbVieLinzess$1,329$29,80355 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$47$21,02253 claims
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Horizant$107$20,92223 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 95th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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