Sloane Yu, MD
Pain Medicine · Vancouver, WANPI 1093154551
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $27,500 of the $42,467 with a category attached, or 64.8%. Stimwave Technologies Incorporated accounts for 79.7% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $31,495 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $168 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in WA 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 305 payments — averaging $139.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$34K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$532
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$431
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,50065%
- Travel & lodging$5,85014%
- Food & beverage$9,11721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 95 | $33,852 |
| Boston Scientific | 136 | $2,280 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 9 | $1,790 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $1,663 |
| Abbott | 7 | $532 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 8 | $431 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $356 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $332 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $247 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $222 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $204 |
| Painteq LLC | 4 | $189 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $109 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Amgen | 2 | $61 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $7 |
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.
- SCS FreedonSpinal Cord Stimulator$29,686
- StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$28,043
- CFNS StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$1,643
- Superion ISS$1,627
- iFuse Implant$1,548
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$340
- PROCLAIM$334
- SPRINT PNS System$277
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$205
- NURTEC ODT$156
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$146
- Protege Family of SCS IPGs$132
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- StimQ Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US Receiver$129
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- mild Device Kit$121
- SUPERION$117
- Senza$104
How this compares
$42,467 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 124 pain medicine providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 155 | $32,279 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 18 | $11,958 |
| Gabapentin | 395 | $8,663 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 382 | $6,198 |
| Fentanyl | 43 | $6,092 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 354 | $5,168 |
| Pregabalin | 333 | $4,316 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 154 | $3,747 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 11 | $3,708 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 53 | $2,706 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 90 | $2,174 |
| Lidocaine | 24 | $1,624 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 14 | $1,010 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 22 | $943 |
| Methocarbamol | 71 | $749 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Vancouver
- Benjamin PlattVancouver$18K
- Peter MullinsVancouver$4K
- Guannan GeVancouver$2K
- Jennifer LeeKirkland$318K
- Steven StanosSeattle$206K
- Corrie AndersonSeattle$102K
- Gregory TermanSeattle$95K
- Caroline HarstroemEverett$74K
- Praveen MambalamEdmonds$32K
- Miroslav BackonjaSeattle$22K
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.