Has Brain Bantum, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $750 in general payments to Brain Bantum, MD across 24 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 Brain Bantum, 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 Brain Bantum, 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.

Brain Bantum, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Sparks, NVNPI 1578735999

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $566 of the $750 with a category attached, or 75.4%. Medtronic accounts for 80.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $468, more than ten times the $11 reported in 2020.

$750in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $31.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$600
Si-bone, Inc.$60
Boston Scientific$38
Pfizer$26
AbbVie$14
Abbott$13

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$18525%
Food & beverage$56675%

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(2 entities)	18	$600
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$60
Boston Scientific	1	$38
Pfizer	1	$26
AbbVie	1	$14
Abbott	1	$13

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.

KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$159

How this compares

$750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 98 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$119,340

Medicare patients

172

Services billed

991

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
Gabapentin	83	$963
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	54	$423
Methocarbamol	27	$221
Methylprednisolone	23	$186
Tizanidine Hcl	28	$182
Naproxen	32	$153
Trazodone Hcl	13	$90
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$53
Tramadol Hcl	19	$35
Meloxicam	16	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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