Brian Goentzel
Pain Medicine · Wichita, KSNPI 1194959692
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $65,900 of the $98,514 with a category attached, or 66.9%. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. accounts for 60.6% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $29,223 and has fallen 77.2% since, to $6,656 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in KS with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 247 payments — averaging $398.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$60K
- Boston Scientific$28K
- Abbott$7K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$2K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$390
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$114
- plus $224 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,66819%
- Speaking & faculty fees$65,90067%
- Travel & lodging$8,4999%
- Food & beverage$5,4486%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 85 | $59,746 |
| Boston Scientific | 53 | $28,236 |
| Abbott | 86 | $7,426 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $2,378 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 6 | $390 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $114 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 2 | $87 |
| Stryker | 1 | $82 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $41 |
| Nevro Corp. | 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.
- Intracept$163,791
- PROCLAIM$4,083
- mild Device Kit$2,259
- Proclaim IPG$1,300
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$658
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$211
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$146
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$105
How this compares
$98,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 64 pain medicine providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 28 | $167 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $164 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $96 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 46 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Wichita
- Robert AinWichita$12K
- Jon ParksWichita$10K
- Rodney JonesWichita$3K
- David NorrisWichita$614
- Amr HegaziWichita$559
- Milton LandersWichita$510
- Douglas FriesenWichita$258
- Edward WadeWichita$56
- Usman LatifKansas City$734K
- Dawood SayedKansas City$649K
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.