Has Howard Rosner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $79,023 in general payments to Howard Rosner, MD across 128 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Howard Rosner, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Howard Rosner, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Howard Rosner, MD

Pain Medicine · West Hollywood, CANPI 1013915669

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $68,020 of the $79,023 with a category attached, or 86.1%. Avanos Medical accounts for 91.1% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $27,587 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $1,177 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in CA 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.

$79,023in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $617.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Avanos Medical$72K
Boston Scientific$6K
Nevro Corp.$200
Vertos Medical, Inc.$151
Nalu Medical, Inc.$143
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$119
plus $129 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$68,02086%
Travel & lodging$5,6307%
Food & beverage$5,3277%
Education$450%

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
Avanos Medical	55	$71,992
Boston Scientific	59	$6,288
Nevro Corp.	3	$200
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$151
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$143
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$119
Medtronic	2	$54
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$45
Flowonix Medical Incorporated	1	$18
Abbott	1	$13

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

$79,023 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$114,763

Medicare patients

225

Services billed

1,061

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	14	$14,973
ZubsolvBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	13	$11,330
Buprenorphine	24	$6,447
Celecoxib	20	$3,404
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	55	$1,714
Duloxetine Hcl	14	$711
Tramadol Hcl	62	$642
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	21	$607
Gabapentin	47	$507
Tizanidine Hcl	32	$476
Pregabalin	25	$323
Meloxicam	34	$248
Etodolac	14	$246
Methadone Hcl	22	$220
Buprenorphine Hcl	11	$205

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in West Hollywood

Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
Samir ShethRoseville$356K
Einar OttestadStanford$352K

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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.

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