Gary Schwartz, MD
Pain Medicine · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1336464593
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,016 payments — averaging $744.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$740K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$5K
- Vertex$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$957
- BD$450
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$511,20468%
- Speaking & faculty fees$161,15521%
- Travel & lodging$67,9579%
- Food & beverage$16,1222%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 914 | $740,146 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 10 | $5,385 |
| Vertex | 13 | $5,042 |
| Abbott | 5 | $2,044 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $957 |
| BD | 1 | $450 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $336 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $312 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $238 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $176 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $170 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $141 |
| Brixton Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $115 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $82 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 1 | $74 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Amgen | 4 | $64 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $17 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 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.
- EXPAREL$467,041
- Iovera$333,917
- Zilretta$86,862
- FIBRYGA & BALFAXAR$5,155
- IOVERA SYSTEM$3,817
- CentriMag$1,900
- mild Device Kit$776
- HemoSphere$450
- Bendini$176
- Hymovis$170
- TRILURON$170
- Neural Ice$138
- MazorX - Renaissance$125
- Octrode SCS Leads$112
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$109
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$108
- DIVERGENCE-L$102
How this compares
$756,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 503 pain medicine providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 66 | $960 |
| Diclofenac Potassium | 17 | $383 |
| Celecoxib | 17 | $332 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $263 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 22 | $241 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $235 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 18 | $187 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 12 | $181 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $171 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Brooklyn
- David RosenblumBrooklyn$105K
- Jacob RauchwergerBrooklyn$41K
- Thomas del GuercioBrooklyn$22K
- Jason KreinerBrooklyn$18K
- Roman ShulkinBrooklyn$15K
- Amitabh GulatiNew York$627K
- William CaldwellStony Brook$550K
- Brian DurkinPort Jefferson$459K
- Grace FordeNew Hyde Park$398K
- David SpinnerNew York$391K
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.