Has Brian Kim, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $32,037 in general payments to Brian Kim, MD across 156 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 Brian Kim, 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 Brian Kim, 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.

Brian Kim, MD

Pain Medicine · Citrus Heights, CANPI 1902241573

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.9%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 68.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,111 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $71 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in CA 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.

$32,037in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 156 payments — averaging $205.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$22K
Aurora Spine, Inc.$5K
Painteq LLC$2K
Boston Scientific$973
Vertos Medical, Inc.$879
Abbott$580
plus $903 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,92012%
Speaking & faculty fees$18,23057%
Travel & lodging$3,11910%
Food & beverage$6,34820%
Education$4201%

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(3 entities)	62	$22,067
Aurora Spine, Inc.	4	$4,543
Painteq LLC	32	$2,090
Boston Scientific	14	$973
Vertos Medical, Inc.	7	$879
Abbott	21	$580
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	4	$366
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	2	$139
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$138
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$70
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$60
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$59
Pfizer	2	$33
Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.	1	$20
Nalu Medical, Inc.	3	$17

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

$32,037 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$334,334

Medicare patients

651

Services billed

14,008

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
Naloxone Hcl	20	$1,006
Methadone Hcl	14	$675
Gabapentin	32	$473
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	32	$335
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$205
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$200
Pregabalin	20	$198
Diazepam	41	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Citrus Heights

Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
Samir ShethRoseville$356K
Einar OttestadStanford$352K

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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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