Gabor Racz
Interventional Pain Medicine · Lubbock, TXNPI 1871595124
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,240,363 of the $2,988,063 with a category attached, or 75.0%. Epimed International, Inc accounts for 91.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 112 payments — averaging $26,679 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Epimed International, Inc$2.7M
- Curonix LLC$240K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$334
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$148
- Medtronic$146
- Boston Scientific$139
- plus $253 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,240,36375%
- Consulting fees$506,49217%
- Food & beverage$1,2080%
- Other$240,0008%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Epimed International, Inc | 95 | $2,746,944 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $240,098 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $334 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $146 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $139 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $78 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $50 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $45 |
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.
- Catheters and Needles$2,026,985
- Epidural Needles and Catheters$497,266
- Needles and Catheters$327,377
- Epidural Needle and Catheter$7,346
- INTELLIS$146
- Prospera$131
How this compares
$2,988,063 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other interventional pain medicine in Lubbock
- Bolkar SahinlerLubbock$188K
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.1M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1M
- Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$277K
- Brian RichDecatur$245K
- Brian BruelHouston$219K
- Timothy RatinoFort Worth$139K
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$125K
- Thomas WhiteShenandoah$118K
- Alan SilberbergKyle$112K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.