Chris Fuke
Pain Medicine · Pasadena, TXNPI 1255535811
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 60 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,336 and has fallen 90.9% since, to $122 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,132.
Across 60 payments — averaging $31.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$435
- Si-bone, Inc.$241
- Boston Scientific$190
- Medtronic$133
- Nevro Corp.$122
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$122
- plus $620 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,861100%
- Education$20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 11 | $435 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $241 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $190 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $133 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $122 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $122 |
| Amgen | 1 | $115 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 5 | $67 |
| Novartis | 4 | $62 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $58 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $42 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,863 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in Pasadena
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
- Puneet SayalCorpus Christi$153K
- Eduardo GarciaWebster$147K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.