Eliel Ntakirutimana, MD
Pain Medicine · Laredo, TXNPI 1306863253
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,890 of the $3,542 with a category attached, or 81.6%. Medtronic accounts for 77.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,788 and has fallen 73.4% since, to $476 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,132.
Across 70 payments — averaging $50.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Nevro Corp.$157
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$94
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$89
- Tonix Medicines, Inc.$84
- Redhill Biopharma Inc.$71
- plus $313 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$65218%
- Food & beverage$2,89082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 53 | $2,734 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $157 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $94 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $59 |
| Emergent Biosolutions Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $41 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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
$3,542 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 41 | $4,282 |
| Gabapentin | 312 | $2,993 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 94 | $2,017 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 34 | $1,251 |
| Baclofen | 159 | $1,006 |
| Methocarbamol | 47 | $732 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 129 | $727 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 27 | $419 |
| Pregabalin | 28 | $405 |
| Nabumetone | 30 | $385 |
| Meloxicam | 135 | $357 |
| Ibuprofen | 28 | $338 |
| Celecoxib | 17 | $307 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 57 | $221 |
| Naproxen | 20 | $163 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Laredo
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.