Benjamin Lowry
Interventional Pain Medicine · Temple, TXNPI 1609024371
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.1%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,587 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $46 in 2024.
Across 611 payments — averaging $53.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$28K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$3K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$408
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$365
- Vertiflex, Inc.$297
- Boston Scientific$130
- plus $502 from 11 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $786.76 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$9K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,55038%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,52011%
- Travel & lodging$2,2947%
- Food & beverage$14,47944%
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 | 529 | $27,703 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 27 | $3,438 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $408 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 11 | $365 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 14 | $297 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $130 |
| Interventional Pain Technologies Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 4 | $77 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $64 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $62 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $7 |
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$7,741
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$7,385
- Intracept$5,881
- Proclaim IPG$2,569
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$2,340
- StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$279
- mild Device Kit$266
- OCTRODE$139
How this compares
$32,843 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other interventional pain medicine in Temple
- Tariq AlfarraTemple$41K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.1M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1M
- Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$277K
- Brian RichDecatur$245K
- Brian BruelHouston$219K
- Bolkar SahinlerLubbock$188K
- Timothy RatinoFort Worth$139K
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$125K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.