Peter Vu
Pain Medicine · Tripler Army Medical Center, HINPI 1831328814
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,777 of the $15,350 with a category attached, or 76.7%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 49.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,878 and has fallen 71.0% since, to $1,416 in 2025.
Across 211 payments — averaging $72.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$8K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$2K
- Abbott$570
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$411
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16.00 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.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$16
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,57323%
- Food & beverage$11,77777%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 136 | $7,667 |
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $2,002 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 12 | $1,769 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $1,562 |
| Abbott | 11 | $570 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 8 | $411 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $247 |
| Painteq LLC | 5 | $244 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $146 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $138 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Vertex | 1 | $116 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Stryker | 1 | $49 |
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.
- Intracept$6,179
- INTELLIS$2,633
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,799
- SPRINT PNS System$1,388
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$507
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$487
- INCEPTIV$320
- Prospera$319
- Evoke$247
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$167
- Vanta$163
- Senza$126
- RESTORE$125
- XEOMIN$124
- JOURNAVX$116
- Proclaim IPG$107
How this compares
Too few pain medicine providers in Hawaiito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pain medicine in Tripler Army Medical Center
- Nicholas TinkhamTripler Army Medical Center$6K
- Daniel ChoiKoloa$35K
- Jeffrey WangHonolulu$32K
- Troy TadaHonolulu$18K
- Dawn SparksLihue$17K
- Eric SunHonolulu$6K
- Louis PauHonolulu$4K
- Nicholas MuraokaHonolulu$2K
- Daniel BurdickHonolulu$994
- Alexander PastinoTripler Amc$639
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.