Zhuo Sun
Pain Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1164837415
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $20,000 of the $25,920 with a category attached, or 77.2%. Medtronic accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $20,494 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $608 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in GA 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 144 payments — averaging $180.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$21K
- Abbott$1K
- Nevro Corp.$690
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$503
- Curonix LLC$472
- Globus Medical$355
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$20,00077%
- Travel & lodging$1,3605%
- Food & beverage$4,56018%
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) | 57 | $21,419 |
| Abbott | 14 | $1,369 |
| Nevro Corp. | 24 | $690 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 9 | $503 |
| Curonix LLC | 5 | $472 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $355 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 5 | $276 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $273 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $91 |
| Avanos Medical | 4 | $84 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| International Rehabilitative Sciences, 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
$25,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Piroxicam | 23 | $12,663 |
| Calcipotriene | 20 | $8,229 |
| Pregabalin | 29 | $291 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 16 | $185 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 15 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Augusta
- Steven HanlingAugusta$19K
- Rutvij ShahColumbus$86K
- Siddardth UmapathyFort Eisenhower$41K
- Susheel DuaAtlanta$36K
- Subodh AgrawalAthens$34K
- Jose MathewLawrenceville$27K
- Maged HamzaGainesville$24K
- Ankur PatelGainesville$21K
- Margaret RisoGainesville$19K
- Harsh DangariaMarietta$18K
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.