Brian Joves, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Sacramento, CANPI 1013201938
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 66.6% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $6,390 and has fallen 73.0% since, to $1,725 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in CA 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.
Across 414 payments — averaging $45.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$12K
- Abbott$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$651
- Painteq LLC$450
- plus $1K from 22 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $661.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$11K
- Medtronic$460
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,90042%
- Travel & lodging$4903%
- Food & beverage$10,27355%
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) | 143 | $12,439 |
| Abbott | 60 | $1,410 |
| Boston Scientific | 93 | $1,384 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 37 | $1,040 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 12 | $651 |
| Painteq LLC | 7 | $450 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 9 | $183 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $163 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $141 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $79 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 5 | $67 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 3 | $21 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 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$4,000
- INTELLIS$3,078
- RESTORE$1,777
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$896
- INFINION$290
- iFuse Implant$246
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$181
- INCEPTIV$165
- Prospera$128
- PAINTEQ$119
How this compares
$18,663 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 830 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in California.
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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 | 18 | $4,689 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 66 | $1,576 |
| Gabapentin | 53 | $712 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $228 |
| Pregabalin | 15 | $212 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $146 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Sacramento
- Nanette JoyceSacramento$56K
- Nicole WilliamsSacramento$11K
- Lisa WilliamsSacramento$11K
- Jaire SaundersSacramento$10K
- Natalya ShtutmanSacramento$7K
- Ziyad AyyoubParamount$322K
- Pratik GandhiAnaheim$122K
- Mary OatesSanta Maria$115K
- Kevin BarretteSan Francisco$84K
- Steven SampsonLos Angeles$63K
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.