Efrain Cubillo, MD
Pain Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1750675864
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $23,060 of the $36,573 with a category attached, or 63.1%. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 35.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,144 and has fallen 50.9% since, to $4,001 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1,060 payments — averaging $34.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$13K
- Nevro Corp.$4K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$4K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$3K
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$2K
- plus $7K from 32 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $50,571 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.
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$657K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,0008%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0005%
- Travel & lodging$8,49623%
- Food & beverage$23,06063%
- Education$40%
- Entertainment$130%
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.
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.
- PROCLAIM$4,540
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$2,478
- Evoke$2,471
- Qutenza$2,116
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$1,531
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,218
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,215
- Intracept$1,175
- ETERNA$784
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$674
- mild Device Kit$502
- Senza$397
- SPINEJACK$372
- Omnia$337
- SUPERION$268
- Proclaim IPG$226
- Evoke SCS$190
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$150
- SPRINT PNS System$144
- IVS - IVAS$135
How this compares
$36,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 90 | $2,085 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 76 | $1,251 |
| Celecoxib | 69 | $1,131 |
| Pregabalin | 40 | $867 |
| Gabapentin | 76 | $863 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $562 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 84 | $529 |
| Methylprednisolone | 59 | $459 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 13 | $388 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 85 | $342 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 13 | $276 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 11 | $232 |
| Mupirocin | 25 | $202 |
| Ibuprofen | 23 | $201 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $169 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Tucson
- Eric CornidezTucson$496K
- Jared GilmanTucson$40K
- Kayven FarshadTucson$27K
- Jared WilsonTucson$26K
- Christopher BenhatzelTucson$16K
- Marco DuranTucson$15K
- Steven PrustTucson$15K
- Christopher BaileyTucson$13K
- Khushvant BholaTucson$13K
- Kenneth GosslerTucson$10K
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.