Has Bryan Covert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,629 in general payments to Bryan Covert, MD across 105 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 Bryan Covert, 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 Bryan Covert, 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.

Bryan Covert, MD

Pain Medicine · Warner Robins, GANPI 1023304961

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 105 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 46.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,110, more than ten times the $170 reported in 2019.

$6,629in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $63.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$3K
Abbott$1K
Nevro Corp.$995
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$437
Stryker$417
Si-bone, Inc.$188
plus $367 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$6,629100%

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	43	$3,075
Abbott	33	$1,150
Nevro Corp.	15	$995
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$437
Stryker	5	$417
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$188
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$154
Medtronic	1	$103
Medline Industries LP	1	$88
Vertex	1	$24

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.

GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$1,020
Proclaim IPG$359
Omnia$293
iFuse Implant$148
MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$145
Senza$144
PROCLAIM$136
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$135
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$119
SPRINT PNS System$117
Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$114
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$114
Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$109
Senza II$104
MazorX - Renaissance$103

How this compares

$6,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$486,283

Medicare patients

486

Services billed

6,240

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	1,809	$43,840
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	452	$12,286
Lidocaine	111	$10,135
Pregabalin	501	$9,329
Diclofenac Sodium	123	$7,502
Gabapentin	420	$4,553
Tizanidine Hcl	329	$3,451
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	263	$2,594
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine	59	$2,418
Tramadol Hcl	193	$1,464
Baclofen	124	$1,334
Methocarbamol	82	$1,185
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	58	$945
Celecoxib	56	$712
Duloxetine Hcl	41	$439

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Warner Robins

Kristina MichaudWarner Robins$10K
Rutvij ShahColumbus$86K
Siddardth UmapathyFort Eisenhower$41K
Susheel DuaAtlanta$36K
Subodh AgrawalAthens$34K
Jose MathewLawrenceville$27K
Zhuo SunAugusta$26K
Maged HamzaGainesville$24K
Ankur PatelGainesville$21K
Margaret RisoGainesville$19K

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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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