James Brunz, MD
Pain Medicine · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1073508131
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,301 of the $4,901 with a category attached, or 87.8%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 38.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,584 and has fallen 54.1% since, to $727 in 2025.
Across 222 payments — averaging $22.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$856
- Nevro Corp.$608
- Medtronic$235
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$76
- plus $99 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$55711%
- Food & beverage$4,30188%
- Education$431%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 122 | $1,899 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 9 | $1,128 |
| Boston Scientific | 42 | $856 |
| Nevro Corp. | 38 | $608 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $235 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $38 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $26 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Avanos Medical | 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.
- Intracept$3,679
- PROCLAIM$103
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$103
How this compares
Too few pain medicine providers in South Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 | 226 | $2,674 |
| Pregabalin | 31 | $1,546 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 54 | $984 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 85 | $506 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 16 | $418 |
| Methylprednisolone | 34 | $205 |
| Meloxicam | 66 | $173 |
| Naproxen | 17 | $168 |
| Cephalexin | 46 | $153 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 24 | $149 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $103 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $95 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $76 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 32 | $74 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Sioux Falls
- Timothy MetzSioux Falls$36K
- James DreessenSioux Falls$9K
- Brent ThurnessSioux Falls$7K
- Samuel BartmessSioux Falls$995
- Thomas BoetelSioux Falls$581
- Christopher JanssenSioux Falls$203
- Scott LockwoodSioux Falls$134
- Jeremy PoulsenDakota Dunes$5K
- Shawna SchmidtAberdeen$5K
- John CookDakota Dunes$5K
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.