Stefan Gilthorpe, MD
Anesthesiology · Dallas, TXNPI 1245677145
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 158 payments — averaging $51.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$862
- Nevro Corp.$538
- Abbott$422
- Painteq LLC$273
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,96837%
- Food & beverage$5,10663%
- Education$421%
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 | 22 | $2,238 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 32 | $2,136 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 7 | $862 |
| Nevro Corp. | 14 | $538 |
| Abbott | 12 | $422 |
| Painteq LLC | 4 | $273 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 11 | $186 |
| Stryker | 1 | $157 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $128 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $109 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 7 | $89 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $85 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $66 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $57 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $39 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$1,570
- SYNCHROMEDII$1,237
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$624
- PAINTEQ$176
- OPTABLATE$157
- OMNICURVE$157
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$157
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$141
- Minuteman$133
- INTELLIS$126
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$121
- Omnia$117
- V-LOC 180$107
How this compares
$8,116 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.
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-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 117 | $29,961 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 949 | $29,003 |
| SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 16 | $17,153 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 24 | $9,992 |
| Pregabalin | 316 | $9,181 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 130 | $8,734 |
| Fentanyl | 22 | $7,630 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 177 | $7,061 |
| Gabapentin | 559 | $6,031 |
| Lidocaine | 79 | $5,916 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 471 | $5,831 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 148 | $4,015 |
| Metaxalone | 23 | $3,845 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 255 | $3,350 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 276 | $3,284 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Dallas
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- Peter SzmukDallas$631K
- Tiffany MoonDallas$606K
- Joseph HendrixDallas$476K
- Deryk WalshDallas$352K
- Umar KhanDallas$319K
- Gijo AlexDallas$279K
- Girish JoshiDallas$239K
- Peiman LahsaeiDallas$226K
- Kunal KaramchandaniDallas$131K
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.