Kort Gronbach, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Westerville, OHNPI 1336191170
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $13,499 of the $18,093 with a category attached, or 74.6%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Simplicity, LLC at 32.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,473, 3.4 times the $1,332 reported in 2019.
Across 273 payments — averaging $66.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$6K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Medtronic$3K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$599
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,71515%
- Food & beverage$13,49975%
- Education$1,87910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 38 | $5,802 |
| Boston Scientific | 126 | $3,043 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 37 | $2,581 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 11 | $2,424 |
| Abbott | 16 | $1,518 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $599 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 6 | $504 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $470 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 4 | $249 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $202 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $125 |
| Vertex | 1 | $122 |
| Curonix LLC | 4 | $102 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $83 |
| Stryker | 1 | $79 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$5,203
- Evoke$2,219
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$640
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$584
- Intracept$526
- PROCLAIM$487
- iFuse Implant$421
- mild Device Kit$390
- Omnia$364
- LIBERTY SI$329
- SYNCHROMED$285
- ETERNA$272
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$268
- ADAPTIVESTIM$249
- SUPERION$219
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$147
- Prospera$140
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$136
- SYNCHROMEDII$128
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$125
How this compares
$18,093 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 67 interventional pain medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 386 | $7,961 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 191 | $4,546 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 278 | $4,543 |
| Gabapentin | 182 | $2,571 |
| Pregabalin | 126 | $2,183 |
| Fentanyl | 27 | $2,012 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 38 | $1,785 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 164 | $950 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 32 | $685 |
| Meloxicam | 103 | $431 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 36 | $420 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 19 | $242 |
| Methadone Hcl | 15 | $211 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 42 | $194 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 15 | $165 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Westerville
- Dustin ReynoldsWesterville$61K
- Robert GouldWesterville$8K
- Gladstone McDowellColumbus$660K
- Humam AkbikFairfield$116K
- Sara NashiCincinnati$116K
- Jaudat MahmoodKent$97K
- Omar AliSpringfield$67K
- James OttingToledo$47K
- Mark MalinowskiChillicothe$39K
- David WalegaColumbus$37K
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.