Drug Opioid Analgesic

Belbuca

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Belbuca. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$1.4Massociated payments (2023-2025)
7,935clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $793K
2024 $321K
2025 $326K

Payments reported as associated with Belbuca, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) $277K
Family $167K
Physician Assistant $136K
Pain Medicine $127K
Neurology (Psychiatry & Neurology) $120K
Interventional Pain Medicine $119K

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Belbuca

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Belbuca. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Charles Argoff Albany, NY Neurology (Psychiatry & Neurology) $106,941.79
Jeffrey Gudin Miami, FL Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) $95,828.40
Richard Rauck Winston Salem, NC Pain Medicine $66,522.73
Nathaniel Schuster San Diego, CA Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) $58,350.00
Martin Angst Stanford, CA Anesthesiology $40,209.00
Lynn Webster Salt Lake City, UT Pain Medicine $31,692.49
Christopher Gharibo New York, NY Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) $17,925.00
Anjuli Desai Austin, TX Interventional Pain Medicine $17,521.15
Neel Mehta New York, NY Interventional Pain Medicine $13,880.92
Edward Michna Boston, MA Anesthesiology $12,160.00

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.