RxDoctor Payments Data

Reed Levine, MD

Pain Medicine · Pasadena, CANPI 1386844868

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.3%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 46 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vertex at 44.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $46,538, 2.1 times the $22,177 reported in 2019. 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.

$99,355in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,256 payments — averaging $79.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Vertex$44K
  • Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$12K
  • Abbott$7K
  • MDD US Operations, LLC$6K
  • Biogen$6K
  • Medtronic$6K
  • plus $18K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$11,74012%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$49,99850%
  • Travel & lodging$13,13013%
  • Food & beverage$24,35125%
  • Education$1370%

General payments by program year

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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.

How this compares

$99,355 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
$158,215
Medicare patients
238
Services billed
4,420

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl50$39,096
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl51$37,993
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate34$16,622
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl18$16,284
SymproicNaldemedine Tosylate32$14,504
QuliptaAtogepant12$12,179
UbrelvyUbrogepant12$11,322
Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe14$10,490
Fentanyl63$9,346
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm12$7,758
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen232$5,950
ButransBuprenorphine11$5,645
Chlorzoxazone25$4,524
Gabapentin278$4,152
Lidocaine29$3,918

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Nucynta$946$55,38068 claims
AbbVieQulipta, Ubrelvy$828$23,50024 claims
Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik$1,717$16,62234 claims
Shionogi IncSymproic$17$14,50432 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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