Natalie Strand, MD
Pain Medicine · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1538137823
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.4%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 36.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $9,290 and has fallen 66.3% since, to $3,131 in 2025.
Across 83 payments — averaging $260.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Nevro Corp.$7K
- Tonix Medicines, Inc.$3K
- Stratus Medical, LLC$2K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$783
- Medtronic$652
- plus $432 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,01346%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,93837%
- Travel & lodging$170%
- Food & beverage$3,62217%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 29 | $7,873 |
| Nevro Corp. | 22 | $7,054 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $2,763 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 4 | $2,032 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $783 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $652 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $179 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $86 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Vertex | 1 | $35 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Omnia$6,548
- IonicRF Generator$2,900
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$2,138
- Nimbus$2,000
- Proclaim IPG$1,052
- Evoke SCS$750
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$483
- Infinity DBS Pulse Generators$475
- PROCLAIM$384
- INCEPTIV$172
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$169
- Senza$144
- Eon Family of SCS IPGs$120
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$117
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117
How this compares
$21,589 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 180 pain medicine providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 20 | $754 |
| Pregabalin | 14 | $485 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 14 | $129 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Scottsdale
- Tory McJunkinScottsdale$204K
- Vivek IyerScottsdale$70K
- Avijit SharmaScottsdale$23K
- Jason JensenScottsdale$21K
- Matthew CrooksScottsdale$21K
- Nikesh SethScottsdale$15K
- Ashu GoyleScottsdale$10K
- Monica TorresScottsdale$8K
- Eric CornidezTucson$496K
- Minesh ZaveriPhoenix$187K
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.