RxDoctor Payments Data

Kevin Wong, DO

Pain Medicine · Palm Springs, CANPI 1457693038

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,410in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $42.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$531
  • Medtronic$253
  • Nevro Corp.$183
  • Painteq LLC$152
  • Si-bone, Inc.$134
  • Globus Medical$68
  • plus $90 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$17813%
  • Food & beverage$1,23287%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Boston Scientific16$531
Medtronic(2 entities)4$253
Nevro Corp.4$183
Painteq LLC1$152
Si-bone, Inc.1$134
Globus Medical3$68
Abbott2$48
Arthrex1$22
Lilly USA, LLC1$20

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

$1,410 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$474,120
Medicare patients
1,395
Services billed
4,877

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen637$13,301
Lidocaine203$12,741
Pregabalin283$8,224
Buprenorphine32$5,907
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen235$4,821
Gabapentin450$4,746
Celecoxib129$3,697
Naloxone Hcl48$2,845
Duloxetine Hcl131$2,470
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium75$2,454
Tramadol Hcl299$2,357
Baclofen306$1,934
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl142$1,480
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine50$1,397
Diclofenac Sodium43$1,284

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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