Chad Pletnick, MD
Pain Medicine · Oro Valley, AZNPI 1992829501
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $94,388 of the $137,405 with a category attached, or 68.7%. 45 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stimwave Technologies Incorporated at 49.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $32,467 and has fallen 60.9% since, to $12,701 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in AZ 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 674 payments — averaging $203.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$67K
- Curonix LLC$52K
- Medtronic$6K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- plus $8K from 39 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$94,38869%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,0001%
- Travel & lodging$19,60714%
- Food & beverage$19,45514%
- Education$240%
- Gifts$2440%
- Entertainment$2,6872%
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.
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$41,844
- SCS FreedonSpinal Cord Stimulator$24,285
- StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$23,266
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$19,602
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$19,602
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$19,602
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$19,602
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$19,602
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$2,531
- SPINEJACK$1,021
- CFNS StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$1,019
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$882
- SYNCHROMEDII$827
- SUPERION$591
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$435
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$367
- Omnia$357
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$354
- Senza$337
- Intracept$275
How this compares
$137,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 180 pain medicine providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Duloxetine Hcl | 41 | $1,048 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $344 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $208 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $97 |
| Diazepam | 26 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Oro Valley
- Samir PatelOro Valley$70K
- Eric CornidezTucson$496K
- Tory McJunkinScottsdale$204K
- Minesh ZaveriPhoenix$187K
- Tristan PicoChandler$121K
- Selaiman NooriLake Havasu City$104K
- Christine HaddadPhoenix$98K
- Vivek IyerScottsdale$70K
- Kirk BowdenMesa$51K
- Gobi ParamanandamPhoenix$46K
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.