Ruchir Gupta, MD
Pain Medicine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1265668453
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,600 of the $14,839 with a category attached, or 78.2%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 47.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,131, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2019.
Across 279 payments — averaging $53.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$7K
- Medtronic$2K
- Merit Medical Systems Inc$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$824
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$770
- Nevro Corp.$730
- plus $1K from 18 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $19,470 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.
- Merck$78K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,3259%
- Food & beverage$11,60078%
- Other$1,91413%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 159 | $7,084 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 27 | $2,379 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $1,914 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 13 | $824 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 20 | $770 |
| Nevro Corp. | 21 | $730 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $202 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $102 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $97 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 2 | $95 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Stryker | 1 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $42 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Vertex | 1 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Brainsway USA Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,784
- ETERNA$1,264
- SYNCHROMEDII$918
- Proclaim IPG$703
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$413
- RESTORE$319
- iFuse Implant$272
- OCTRODE$257
- INTELLIS$151
- IonicRF Generator$137
- SYNCHROMED$128
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$122
- Qutenza$122
- Magellan$110
How this compares
$14,839 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 85 | $1,036 |
| Gabapentin | 52 | $533 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 14 | $352 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 43 | $349 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $312 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $301 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 11 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Phoenix
- Minesh ZaveriPhoenix$187K
- Christine HaddadPhoenix$98K
- Gobi ParamanandamPhoenix$46K
- Omar ViswanathPhoenix$42K
- Lynn ChangPhoenix$29K
- Mark KallgrenPhoenix$24K
- Shawnjeet SainiPhoenix$14K
- Jawad ArshadPhoenix$13K
- Shafik BoyajiPhoenix$10K
- Nicholas ScottPhoenix$9K
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.