Has Alexander Nurre, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,480 in general payments to Alexander Nurre, MD across 35 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 Alexander Nurre, 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 Alexander Nurre, 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.

Alexander Nurre, MD

Pain Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1033672431

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,480in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $70.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Curonix LLC$225
Boston Scientific$218
Stryker$193
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$160
Vertos Medical, Inc.$148
plus $294 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,33294%
Education$1486%

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	18	$1,241
Curonix LLC	2	$225
Boston Scientific	2	$218
Stryker	3	$193
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$160
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$148
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$131
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$69
Pfizer	2	$41
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$22
AbbVie	1	$17
Johnson & Johnson	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.

INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$930
SPRINT PNS System$160
OMNICURVE$153
mild Device Kit$148
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$130
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$127
Qutenza$114

How this compares

$2,480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$75,956

Medicare patients

181

Services billed

6,030

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
Fentanyl	28	$4,438
Tizanidine Hcl	114	$2,322
Gabapentin	137	$2,292
Pregabalin	72	$2,135
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	116	$1,513
Tramadol Hcl	117	$1,496
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	75	$975
Duloxetine Hcl	27	$675
Oxycodone Hcl	72	$658
Baclofen	26	$468
Methocarbamol	36	$327
Nortriptyline Hcl	13	$127
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$83

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Gururau SudarshanCincinnati$20K
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Charles BellamyCincinnati$10K
Laura DevitaCincinnati$9K
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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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