Lisa Stearns
Interventional Pain Medicine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1902876717
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $39,750 of the $47,765 with a category attached, or 83.2%. Medtronic accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in AZ 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 131 payments — averaging $364.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$38K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- West Therapeutics Development, LLC$3K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Nevro Corp.$440
- Flowonix Medical Incorporated$358
- plus $832 from 16 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $36,559 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$715K
- Boston Scientific$69K
- Nevro Corp.$18K
- Purdue Pharma L.p.$538
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA$538
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$488
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,2815%
- Speaking & faculty fees$39,75083%
- Travel & lodging$1,9464%
- Food & beverage$3,7898%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 36 | $38,052 |
| Boston Scientific | 16 | $3,866 |
| West Therapeutics Development, LLC | 6 | $2,582 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 11 | $1,636 |
| Nevro Corp. | 17 | $440 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $358 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $180 |
| Abbott | 5 | $94 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Amgen | 4 | $62 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $59 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $53 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- SYNCHROMED$17,729
- ADAPTIVESTIM$17,500
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$3,153
- Lazanda$2,500
- TARGETSTIM$1,800
- Superion ISS$1,415
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$544
- Prometra II$358
- RESTORE$157
- LIORESAL$109
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$109
- VECTRIS$105
How this compares
$47,765 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 64 interventional pain medicine providers in Arizona.
Other interventional pain medicine in Phoenix
- Steven SiwekPhoenix$57K
- Ramoun JonesPhoenix$51K
- Jerome GrovePhoenix$21K
- Thomas MoshiriPhoenix$19K
- Abram BurgherPhoenix$15K
- Adam SiwekPhoenix$14K
- Todd TurleyPhoenix$13K
- Jarrett LeathemPhoenix$11K
- Ankit PatelPhoenix$8K
- Chhavi ManchandaPhoenix$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.