Has Timothy Furnish, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,343 in general payments to Timothy Furnish, MD across 247 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Timothy Furnish, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Timothy Furnish, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Timothy Furnish, MD

Pain Medicine · San Diego, CANPI 1689840910

Payments from drug & device makers

$22,343in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 247 payments — averaging $90.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$10K
Boston Scientific$5K
Abbott$4K
Nevro Corp.$913
Nalu Medical, Inc.$628
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$289
plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,2599%
Food & beverage$12,20990%
Education$350%

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)	30	$9,985
Boston Scientific	82	$5,052
Abbott	67	$4,048
Nevro Corp.	17	$913
Nalu Medical, Inc.	13	$628
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	4	$289
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	3	$282
Globus Medical	2	$163
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$127
Vertiflex, Inc.	2	$126
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$89
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$88
Bioventus LLC	3	$88
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$83
Trice Medical, Inc.	1	$76
Avanos Medical	2	$68
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$60
Stryker	2	$46
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$35
Trevena, Inc.	2	$35
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$20
Painteq LLC	1	$17
Piramal Critical Care	1	$15
Tenex Health Inc.	1	$11

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

$22,343 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$112,583

Medicare patients

387

Services billed

1,150

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	17	$5,615
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	18	$4,973
Pregabalin	81	$3,072
Celecoxib	27	$887
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	25	$736
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	17	$502
Oxycodone Hcl	44	$459
Methocarbamol	23	$401
Methadone Hcl	14	$318
Hydromorphone Hcl	27	$274
Gabapentin	33	$264
Baclofen	15	$261
Nortriptyline Hcl	14	$236
Tizanidine Hcl	15	$171
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in San Diego

Nathaniel SchusterSan Diego$366K
Mark WallaceSan Diego$340K
Gemayel LeeSan Diego$131K
Clayton VargaSan Diego$112K
Jessica OswaldSan Diego$90K
Kevin SmithSan Diego$80K
Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M

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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.

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