Brannon Frank, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1568465763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,722 of the $7,255 with a category attached, or 65.1%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 41.0% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $6,464.
Across 148 payments — averaging $49.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- Medinc Of Texas$690
- Abbott$686
- Si-bone, Inc.$468
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$237
- plus $854 from 10 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $98,661 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$691K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,84325%
- Food & beverage$4,72265%
- Education$69010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 77 | $2,972 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 24 | $1,348 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 1 | $690 |
| Abbott | 14 | $686 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $468 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 4 | $237 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $176 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 5 | $175 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $156 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $152 |
| Core Surgical Group | 2 | $47 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $39 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $35 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,009
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$587
- ETERNA$267
- PROCLAIM$150
- Prospera$138
- iFuse Implant$120
- Protege Family of SCS IPGs$110
How this compares
$7,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 29 | $255 |
| Baclofen | 12 | $197 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Austin
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$125K
- Anjuli DesaiAustin$82K
- Paul leAustin$27K
- Martin ThaiAustin$23K
- Clayton AdamsAustin$22K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.1M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1M
- Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$277K
- Brian RichDecatur$245K
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.