Irene Wu, MD
Pain Medicine · Santa Monica, CANPI 1699964122
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 274 payments — averaging $50.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$758
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$724
- Johnson & Johnson$696
- Nevro Corp.$527
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$13,725100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 92 | $4,991 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 51 | $2,970 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 23 | $758 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $724 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $696 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $527 |
| Abbott | 14 | $460 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 21 | $361 |
| Painteq LLC | 3 | $289 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 4 | $269 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 4 | $244 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $201 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $171 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 4 | $161 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $91 |
| Stryker | 1 | $74 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $71 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $63 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Vertex | 1 | $33 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $29 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 1 | $20 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| West Therapeutics Development, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$1,714
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$1,493
- mild Device Kit$679
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$453
- Senza$380
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$260
- Superion ISS$222
- Prometra II$201
- ETERNA$173
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$172
- SYNCHROMEDII$167
- PAINTEQ$161
- MOUNJARO$125
- FIBERGRAFT$125
- CONFIDENCE$125
- SUPERION$125
- FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$120
- VIPER$115
- RESTORE$107
- StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$105
How this compares
$13,725 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 124 | $27,039 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 18 | $12,082 |
| Hysingla ErHydrocodone Bitartrate | 12 | $5,602 |
| Gabapentin | 189 | $4,908 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 105 | $1,964 |
| Fentanyl | 22 | $1,750 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 62 | $1,400 |
| Pregabalin | 53 | $1,355 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $1,227 |
| Lidocaine | 15 | $1,181 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 72 | $828 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 78 | $805 |
| Methocarbamol | 43 | $732 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $706 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 53 | $705 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Santa Monica
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
- Timothy DavisSanta Monica$383K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
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.