Alex Schmidt, MD
Pain Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1669925756
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,274 of the $10,002 with a category attached, or 82.7%. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 38.8% of the total.
Across 289 payments — averaging $34.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Medtronic$2K
- AbbVie$947
- Boston Scientific$636
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$289
- UCB, Inc.$287
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$1,66717%
- Travel & lodging$420%
- Food & beverage$8,27483%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 103 | $3,883 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,977 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 40 | $947 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $636 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 13 | $289 |
| UCB, Inc. | 19 | $287 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $284 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $221 |
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 1 | $212 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 12 | $212 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 8 | $144 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 4 | $130 |
| Curonix LLC | 5 | $90 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $84 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $75 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 2 | $35 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $15 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,889
- SYNCHROMED$1,667
- OCTRODE$249
- InSpan$212
- SIJFuse$212
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$206
- INTELLIS$153
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$109
How this compares
$10,002 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 112 pain medicine providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 52 | $1,433 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $1,118 |
| Gabapentin | 39 | $435 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $311 |
| Pregabalin | 24 | $253 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 15 | $230 |
| Cephalexin | 29 | $224 |
| Baclofen | 15 | $163 |
| Celecoxib | 15 | $126 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Nashville
- Shravani DurbhakulaNashville$353K
- Herbert MeltzerNashville$43K
- Marc HuntoonNashville$37K
- Puneet MishraNashville$32K
- Jeremy WalkerNashville$25K
- Damita BryantNashville$18K
- Tigran KesayanNashville$13K
- Christopher SobeyNashville$10K
- Victor IsaacNashville$7K
- Barbara SchooleyNashville$6K
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.