Candice Burnette, MD
Pain Medicine · Sugar Land, TXNPI 1538328943
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $169,275 of the $264,631 with a category attached, or 64.0%. Medtronic accounts for 84.6% of it on its own, with 44 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $91,299 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $13,178 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.
Across 898 payments — averaging $294.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$224K
- Omnia Medical, LLC$16K
- Nevro Corp.$4K
- Abbott$4K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$3K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- plus $11K from 39 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $575.00 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.
- Medtronic$575
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,3358%
- Speaking & faculty fees$169,27564%
- Travel & lodging$39,47915%
- Food & beverage$35,47513%
- Education$670%
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.
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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$99,088
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$46,403
- INTELLIS$24,788
- Accurian$21,454
- SYNCHROMED$9,025
- RESTORE$3,359
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$2,477
- Evoke$2,324
- Intracept$1,808
- SPRINT PNS System$1,707
- Inflate FX$1,440
- Proclaim IPG$1,390
- SUPERION$1,363
- INCEPTIV$1,162
- SYNCHROMEDII$1,107
- AUTOFILL$926
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$919
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$804
- Axium INS DRG IPG$621
- mild Device Kit$617
How this compares
$264,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 | 16 | $3,093 |
| Gabapentin | 275 | $2,319 |
| Lidocaine | 12 | $2,042 |
| Celecoxib | 92 | $2,014 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 163 | $1,160 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 61 | $740 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 71 | $657 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 129 | $626 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $601 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 40 | $565 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 54 | $469 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 61 | $422 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 17 | $380 |
| Methocarbamol | 29 | $346 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $329 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Sugar Land
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
- Puneet SayalCorpus Christi$153K
- Eduardo GarciaWebster$147K
- Jaideep MehtaHouston$134K
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.