Has Bradley Schulte, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,586 in general payments to Bradley Schulte, MD across 279 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 Bradley Schulte, 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 Bradley Schulte, 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.

Bradley Schulte, MD

Pain Medicine · Highland Heights, KYNPI 1508229543

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 39.0% of the total.

$17,586in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 279 payments — averaging $63.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$7K
Abbott$4K
Boston Scientific$3K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
Vertos Medical, Inc.$607
Nevro Corp.$349
plus $626 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$7,48543%
Food & beverage$10,10157%

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	53	$6,856
Abbott	155	$4,127
Boston Scientific	25	$3,423
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	8	$1,599
Vertos Medical, Inc.	9	$607
Nevro Corp.	12	$349
Curonix LLC	2	$193
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	4	$191
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$109
AbbVie	2	$30
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$25
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	2	$25
Gilead	1	$19
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$18
Globus Medical	1	$16

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.

Intracept$6,044
VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$2,701
GENERAL - THERAPIES$2,456
INTELLIS$1,462
PROCLAIM$1,409
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,224
ETERNA$570
mild Device Kit$395
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$171
KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$170
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$166
Proclaim DRG IPG$156
Proclaim IPG$154
KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$150
Prospera$145
Vanta$145
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$140
CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$115
Omnia$109
SYNCHROMEDII$101

How this compares

$17,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$146,372

Medicare patients

336

Services billed

1,441

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
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	18	$15,543
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	444	$11,506
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl	14	$10,014
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	321	$6,131
Oxycodone Hcl	140	$2,842
Gabapentin	197	$1,967
Lidocaine	17	$1,321
Pregabalin	32	$1,200
Duloxetine Hcl	50	$1,192
Methocarbamol	46	$338
Tizanidine Hcl	38	$324
Diclofenac Sodium	14	$246
Methylprednisolone	19	$138
Meloxicam	45	$98
Tramadol Hcl	23	$94

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Tejas ShahAshland$23K
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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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