Phillip Lim
Interventional Pain Medicine · Buena Park, CANPI 1023227154
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $82,419 of the $126,756 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Medtronic accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 48 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,341 and has fallen 70.2% since, to $9,029 in 2025. Among interventional 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.
Across 778 payments — averaging $162.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$87K
- Boston Scientific$20K
- Stryker$3K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$3K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$2K
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
- plus $11K from 43 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $500.00 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.
- Vertiflex, Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,2003%
- Speaking & faculty fees$82,41965%
- Travel & lodging$11,4029%
- Food & beverage$29,68523%
- Education$500%
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.
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.
- RESTORE$22,150
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$21,107
- INTELLIS$16,424
- SYNCHROMED$5,929
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$5,530
- ACTIVOS$5,475
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$5,380
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$4,800
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$4,081
- mild Device Kit$2,921
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,803
- SUPERION$1,800
- Evoke SCS$1,390
- NURTEC ODT$1,325
- INCEPTIV$840
- Intracept$607
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$512
- ADAPTIVESTIM$410
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$299
- T2$297
How this compares
$126,756 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 188 interventional pain medicine providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 34 | $6,246 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 227 | $4,006 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 83 | $2,006 |
| Pregabalin | 51 | $1,394 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 33 | $988 |
| Gabapentin | 76 | $867 |
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 19 | $863 |
| Celecoxib | 25 | $525 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 32 | $459 |
| Methadone Hcl | 11 | $403 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 24 | $392 |
| Phenytoin Sodium Extended | 12 | $370 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 89 | $338 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 32 | $328 |
| Baclofen | 22 | $288 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Buena Park
- Christopher YihBuena Park$24K
- Michael Verdolinla Mesa$507K
- Tim LeierRancho Mirage$449K
- Jonathan GrossmanVisalia$404K
- Kasra MaasumiRancho Santa Margarita$388K
- Andrew GermanovichRancho Mirage$333K
- David LeeYorba Linda$257K
- Standiford HelmOrange$254K
- Patrick BuchananCamarillo$219K
- Chau VuSanta Rosa$141K
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.