David Tom
Interventional Pain Medicine · Sun City, AZNPI 1043491988
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,820 of the $3,763 with a category attached, or 74.9%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vertiflex, Inc. at 38.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,415 and has fallen 86.7% since, to $322 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $8,993.
Across 68 payments — averaging $55.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$587
- Abbott$563
- Nevro Corp.$333
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$147
- Medtronic$146
- plus $556 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$94325%
- Food & beverage$2,82075%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 14 | $1,431 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $587 |
| Abbott | 6 | $563 |
| Nevro Corp. | 18 | $333 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $146 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $65 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Superion ISS$1,082
- Intracept$385
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$237
- OCTRODE$186
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$159
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$147
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$143
- PROCLAIM$138
- Prospera$125
- ADAPTIVESTIM$122
How this compares
$3,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 64 interventional pain medicine providers in Arizona.
Other interventional pain medicine in Sun City
- Clifford BakerSun City$25K
- Jae Hyung ParkSun City$17K
- Paul LynchScottsdale$283K
- Jack DiepLake Havasu City$233K
- Matthew RansonMesa$86K
- Steven SiwekPhoenix$57K
- Ajay YedduGilbert$52K
- Ramoun JonesPhoenix$51K
- Lisa StearnsPhoenix$48K
- Sachin NarainGilbert$31K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.