Kristine Watford
Pain Medicine · San Jose, CANPI 1346668241
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 199 payments — averaging $23.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$917
- AbbVie$107
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$69
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$67
- plus $239 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,03322%
- Food & beverage$3,73378%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 150 | $2,301 |
| Abbott | 7 | $1,066 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 22 | $917 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $107 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $36 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$990
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$401
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$401
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$401
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$401
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$268
- StimQ Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US Receiver$259
- CFNS StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$189
- SCS FreedonSpinal Cord Stimulator$189
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$142
How this compares
$4,766 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
Other pain medicine in San Jose
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Xiang QianRedwood City$941K
- Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$863K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.