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Interventional Pain Medicine · Orange, CANPI 1437156627
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $236,250 of the $254,336 with a category attached, or 92.9%. Curonix LLC accounts for 97.8% of it on its own, with 33 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $239,490 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $6,542 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 167 payments — averaging $1522.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Curonix LLC$249K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$3K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$368
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$232
- AbbVie$226
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$224
- plus $1K from 28 others
Across 24 payments — averaging $9233.02 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.
- Seikagaku Corporation$185K
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$19K
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$16K
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA$378
- Purdue Pharma L.p.$378
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$343
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,3956%
- Food & beverage$2,6911%
- Other$236,25093%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Curonix LLC | 29 | $248,863 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 5 | $3,204 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 23 | $368 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 20 | $232 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $226 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $224 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $157 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 10 | $138 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $75 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $73 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $67 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| West Therapeutics Development, LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Abbott | 2 | $50 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $45 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $40 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $39 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $38 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Stryker | 1 | $21 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 2 | $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.
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$239,359
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$239,359
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$239,359
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$239,359
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$239,359
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$12,515
How this compares
$254,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 188 interventional pain medicine providers in California.
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Other interventional pain medicine in Orange
- Michael Verdolinla Mesa$507K
- Tim LeierRancho Mirage$449K
- Jonathan GrossmanVisalia$404K
- Kasra MaasumiRancho Santa Margarita$388K
- Andrew GermanovichRancho Mirage$333K
- David LeeYorba Linda$257K
- Patrick BuchananCamarillo$219K
- Chau VuSanta Rosa$141K
- Phillip LimBuena Park$127K
- Marc LynchChino$114K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.