Susan Gutierrez, MD
Pain Medicine · San Ramon, CANPI 1518961127
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 40 payments — averaging $59.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$529
- Abbott$156
- AbbVie$57
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$53
- Medtronic$34
- plus $149 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,56465%
- Food & beverage$82835%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 8 | $1,416 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 7 | $529 |
| Abbott | 9 | $156 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $57 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $34 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $27 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $24 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$2,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 43 | $30,326 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 75 | $2,656 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 59 | $2,154 |
| Lidocaine | 23 | $1,300 |
| Gabapentin | 130 | $1,072 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $795 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 57 | $593 |
| Pregabalin | 13 | $294 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $265 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 12 | $247 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $228 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 19 | $149 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $137 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $91 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 19 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in San Ramon
- 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.