Richard Glines, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1790794063
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,986 of the $3,615 with a category attached, or 82.6%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 35.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,304 and has fallen 53.3% since, to $609 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $7,299.
Across 169 payments — averaging $21.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$827
- Medtronic$548
- AbbVie$435
- Stryker$147
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$113
- plus $281 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$62917%
- Food & beverage$2,98683%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 63 | $1,265 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 7 | $827 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 44 | $548 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 30 | $435 |
| Stryker | 7 | $147 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $113 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Amgen | 3 | $54 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $48 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $25 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $24 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
| Stratus Medical, LLC | 1 | $10 |
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$1,583
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$148
How this compares
$3,615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 26 interventional pain medicine providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 11 | $13,947 |
| Buprenorphine | 29 | $6,572 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 114 | $584 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 40 | $500 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 138 | $466 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 74 | $428 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 16 | $385 |
| Gabapentin | 59 | $356 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 36 | $340 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $329 |
| Pregabalin | 18 | $264 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 37 | $229 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $53 |
| Prednisone | 18 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Salt Lake City
- Jie LuoSalt Lake City$8K
- David ByrdSalt Lake City$7K
- John HongSalt Lake City$6K
- Bryan HoelzerVineyard$718K
- Nathan ClementsSaint George$29K
- Rick ObraySt George$23K
- Brian RichardsonLogan$19K
- Alex NelsonMurray$17K
- Steven LarsenSaint George$14K
- J Riley StringhamProvo$13K
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.