Edward Braun, MD
Pain Medicine · Kansas City, KSNPI 1821192956
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,275 of the $11,578 with a category attached, or 88.7%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 45.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,427 and has fallen 63.8% since, to $1,242 in 2025.
Across 197 payments — averaging $58.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$3K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Medtronic$271
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$263
- Globus Medical$245
- plus $1K from 9 others
Across 30 payments — averaging $5055.52 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.
- Abbott$152K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,30411%
- Food & beverage$10,27589%
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 | 116 | $5,316 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 25 | $2,760 |
| Nevro Corp. | 25 | $1,717 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $271 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $263 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $245 |
| Gilead | 3 | $206 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $168 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $140 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| Vertex | 1 | $107 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $105 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $66 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- Evoke SCS$1,643
- PROCLAIM$1,313
- ETERNA$596
- Omnia$549
- Senza$495
- Evoke$367
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$300
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$277
- Proclaim IPG$257
- INTELLIS$166
- PAINTEQ$161
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$140
- Prodigy Family of SCS IPGs$116
- JOURNAVX$107
- VRAYLAR$105
- SPRINT PNS System$104
How this compares
$11,578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 64 pain medicine providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| NucyntaTapentadol Hcl | 13 | $28,472 |
| Gabapentin | 453 | $8,411 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 217 | $7,896 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 319 | $7,797 |
| Pregabalin | 160 | $3,983 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 309 | $3,946 |
| Fentanyl | 31 | $3,441 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 37 | $1,634 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 250 | $1,512 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 119 | $1,501 |
| Lidocaine | 14 | $1,318 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 102 | $1,094 |
| Methocarbamol | 44 | $1,030 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 15 | $520 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 24 | $436 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Grace ShihKansas City$443
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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.