Katharine Gurba, MD
Pain Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1174938369
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $17,500 of the $18,474 with a category attached, or 94.7%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 54.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $17,500 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $289 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in MO 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 18 payments — averaging $1026.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$10K
- Medtronic$8K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$241
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$156
- Abbott$130
- MML US, Inc.$119
- plus $212 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$17,50095%
- Food & beverage$9745%
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 | 2 | $10,117 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $7,500 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $241 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $156 |
| Abbott | 3 | $130 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $119 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $53 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
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$10,000
- SYNCHROMED$7,500
- SPRINT PNS System$129
- SUPERION$117
How this compares
$18,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 100 | $2,665 |
| Lidocaine | 22 | $1,351 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 47 | $1,152 |
| Gabapentin | 54 | $1,067 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $778 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 32 | $733 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 25 | $426 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $367 |
| Baclofen | 17 | $361 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 23 | $354 |
| Methocarbamol | 18 | $167 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $158 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 17 | $117 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Saint Louis
- Vinicius Tieppo FrancioSaint Louis$35K
- Jooyoung MaengSaint Louis$25K
- Nabil AhmadSaint Louis$21K
- Jeremy ThompsonSaint Louis$11K
- Alexander BeyzerSaint Louis$11K
- Hamed SadeghipourSaint Louis$10K
- Hess PanjetonSaint Louis$6K
- Xiaobin YiSaint Louis$6K
- Nicole ShinSaint Louis$6K
- Satish ReddySaint Louis$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.