Has Lisa Kroopf, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $91,079 in general payments to Lisa Kroopf, MD across 476 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lisa Kroopf, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lisa Kroopf, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lisa Kroopf, MD

Pain Medicine · Monterey, CANPI 1487896585

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.2%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vertos Medical, Inc. at 44.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $38,408 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $1,429 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$91,079in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 476 payments — averaging $191.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Vertos Medical, Inc.$40K
Boston Scientific$33K
Abbott$10K
Nevro Corp.$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
plus $4K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$44,85249%
Speaking & faculty fees$23,78026%
Travel & lodging$8,0479%
Food & beverage$14,36416%
Education$370%

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
Vertos Medical, Inc.	41	$40,096
Boston Scientific	231	$32,805
Abbott	44	$10,282
Nevro Corp.	28	$1,812
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	9	$1,309
Vertiflex, Inc.	11	$1,133
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	9	$453
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	6	$430
AbbVie(2 entities)	19	$398
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	2	$274
GSK	13	$238
Painteq LLC	2	$215
MML US, Inc.	3	$191
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$188
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$150
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$111
Curonix LLC	4	$84
Novo Nordisk	4	$81
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	3	$77
Amgen	3	$64
Pfizer	3	$64
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$59
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$58
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$46
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	2	$39
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	2	$39
Merit Medical Systems Inc	2	$39
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	2	$38
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$38
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$36
Philips North America LLC	1	$25
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$23
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$23
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	1	$22
Exact Sciences	1	$22
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$22
Avanos Medical	1	$18
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$16
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$13
AstraZeneca	1	$13
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$12
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$6

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.

mild Device Kit$39,599
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$8,644
WAVEWRITER ALPHA$7,307
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$6,970
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$4,439
IonicRF Generator$3,506
Proclaim DRG IPG$3,400
Intracept$2,352
Superion ISS$990
GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$935
GENERAL - THERAPIES$800
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$799
Prodigy Family of SCS IPGs$575
Proclaim XR IPG$419
Evoke SCS$274
Senza$268
Omnia$236
SPRINT PNS System$229
ETERNA$169
Infinion 16$167

How this compares

$91,079 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$352,012

Medicare patients

243

Services billed

3,445

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.

Other pain medicine in Monterey

Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.1M
Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.4M
Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.3M
Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$783K
Eric GrigsbyNapa$499K
Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$494K
Gerald SacksSanta Monica$389K
Samir ShethRoseville$356K
Einar OttestadStanford$352K

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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.

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