Jonathan Burns, MD
Pain Medicine · Reno, NVNPI 1184745465
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (52.8%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 71.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,149 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $80 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in NV with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 214 payments — averaging $95.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$15K
- Medtronic$3K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$455
- Nevro Corp.$280
- Radius Health, Inc.$87
- plus $226 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,80053%
- Travel & lodging$4,79223%
- Food & beverage$4,84524%
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 | 114 | $14,686 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 37 | $3,078 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 15 | $1,627 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 5 | $455 |
| Nevro Corp. | 29 | $280 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $87 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 4 | $81 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$10,182
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$2,366
- SYNCHROMED$1,864
- Superion ISS$1,308
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$657
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$600
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$328
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$328
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$328
- RESTORE$180
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$169
- SYNCHROMEDII$136
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$116
How this compares
$20,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 101 pain medicine providers in Nevada.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 14 | $174 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 22 | $144 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $137 |
| Losartan Potassium | 17 | $94 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 14 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Reno
- Denis PattersonReno$816K
- Anwar MackReno$32K
- Ross JensonReno$19K
- Michael GyorfiReno$17K
- Jacob BlakeReno$8K
- Jeffery MuirReno$6K
- Seneca StormReno$2K
- Rainer VogelHenderson$230K
- John DimuroPahrump$44K
- Kunal ParikhLas Vegas$26K
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.