Juan Ruiz Hurtarte
Pain Medicine · Seattle, WANPI 1376723981
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,986 of the $3,694 with a category attached, or 80.8%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by SPR Therapeutics, Inc at 39.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,836 and has fallen 80.1% since, to $365 in 2025.
Across 69 payments — averaging $53.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
- Boston Scientific$639
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$354
- Bioventus LLC$347
- Nevro Corp.$307
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$175
- plus $430 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70819%
- Food & beverage$2,98681%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 26 | $1,442 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $639 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $354 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $347 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $307 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 5 | $175 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $102 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $77 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $60 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $59 |
| Stryker | 1 | $41 |
| Vertex | 1 | $32 |
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
$3,694 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 54 | $350 |
| Celecoxib | 20 | $335 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $309 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Seattle
- Steven StanosSeattle$206K
- Corrie AndersonSeattle$102K
- Gregory TermanSeattle$95K
- Miroslav BackonjaSeattle$22K
- Alex CahanaSeattle$12K
- Michael GofeldSeattle$8K
- Christopher MerifieldSeattle$5K
- Agnes StogiczaSeattle$5K
- Rana Al-JumahSeattle$4K
- Alexander NguyenSeattle$4K
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.