Has Daniel Kuo, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,107 in general payments to Daniel Kuo, DO across 57 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 Daniel Kuo, DO 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 Daniel Kuo, DO 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.

Daniel Kuo, DO

Pain Medicine · City Of Industry, CANPI 1548624331

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 57 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 35.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $727, 2.2 times the $330 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,829.

$2,107in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $36.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$740
Forte Bio-pharma LLC$406
Medtronic$219
Nalu Medical, Inc.$149
AbbVie$135
Amgen$120
plus $338 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,107100%

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
Boston Scientific	7	$740
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	32	$406
Medtronic	2	$219
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$149
AbbVie	2	$135
Amgen	1	$120
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$116
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	4	$67
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$52
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Curonix LLC	1	$23
Piramal Critical Care	1	$22
Bioventus LLC	1	$21
Vertex	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.

How this compares

$2,107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$626,502

Medicare patients

540

Services billed

6,672

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
NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate	24	$47,029
Celecoxib	203	$5,136
Buprenorphine	24	$5,123
Gabapentin	665	$4,237
Diclofenac Sodium	149	$2,853
Lidocaine	38	$2,228
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	53	$1,396
Pregabalin	110	$1,297
Baclofen	149	$982
Naproxen	132	$979
Meloxicam	289	$898
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	37	$548
Duloxetine Hcl	44	$398
Ibuprofen	46	$363
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	33	$298

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in City Of Industry

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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