Stanley Chou, MD
Pain Medicine · Los Alamitos, CANPI 1194722611
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 243 payments — averaging $20.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$439
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$308
- Abbott$221
- Nevro Corp.$148
- Boston Scientific$144
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,95899%
- Education$351%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 123 | $2,640 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 32 | $439 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $308 |
| Abbott | 8 | $221 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $148 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $144 |
| Zynex Medical, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 7 | $95 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| West Therapeutics Development, LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $69 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $66 |
| Amgen | 5 | $60 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Micromed Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $21 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $12 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 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.
- INTELLIS$565
- Nexwave$136
- Morphabond ER$125
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$109
How this compares
$4,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 19 | $7,693 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 149 | $3,817 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 238 | $3,416 |
| Gabapentin | 256 | $3,392 |
| Lidocaine | 32 | $2,680 |
| Pregabalin | 68 | $1,577 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 80 | $1,468 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 51 | $1,391 |
| Naproxen | 46 | $1,101 |
| Celecoxib | 22 | $1,096 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 147 | $921 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 27 | $691 |
| Methocarbamol | 68 | $518 |
| Methadone Hcl | 32 | $472 |
| Ibuprofen | 77 | $459 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik | $75 | $7,69319 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 65th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
Other pain medicine in Los Alamitos
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Xiang QianRedwood City$941K
- Jacqueline WeisbeinNapa$863K
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.