Brian Adams
Pain Medicine · Gainesville, GANPI 1366672693
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 111 payments — averaging $38.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$888
- Stryker$620
- Nevro Corp.$403
- Abbott$355
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$115
- plus $486 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,236100%
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) | 23 | $1,368 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $888 |
| Stryker | 16 | $620 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $403 |
| Abbott | 18 | $355 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $78 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $41 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $21 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $19 |
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$338
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$246
- RESTORE$186
- Omnia$148
- mild Device Kit$115
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$111
How this compares
$4,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Gainesville
- Maged HamzaGainesville$50K
- Ankur PatelGainesville$21K
- Margaret RisoGainesville$19K
- John GivogreGainesville$9K
- Stephanie SmithGainesville$6K
- Arnold WeilMarietta$286K
- Jeffrey GrossmanAtlanta$189K
- Vicente GalanStockbridge$95K
- Rutvij ShahColumbus$86K
- Anthony GrassoMarietta$79K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.