Has Brycen Witcher received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,092 in general payments to Brycen Witcher across 113 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 Brycen Witcher 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 Brycen Witcher 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.

Brycen Witcher

Interventional Pain Medicine · Granbury, TXNPI 1356924476

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,092in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 113 payments — averaging $80.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$3K
Medtronic$3K
Boston Scientific$2K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$326
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$213
Nalu Medical, Inc.$146
plus $592 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,95744%
Food & beverage$5,13456%

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
Abbott	26	$3,058
Medtronic	48	$2,957
Boston Scientific	14	$1,800
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$326
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	4	$213
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$146
Nevro Corp.	1	$137
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$115
AbbVie	1	$70
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$59
Globus Medical	2	$58
Vertex	1	$53
Novartis	2	$35
Avanos Medical	1	$34
AstraZeneca	1	$17
Boehringer Ingelheim	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.

How this compares

$9,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
JardianceEmpagliflozin	12	$18,594
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate	11	$10,092
Gabapentin	112	$1,985
Fentanyl	16	$1,949
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	50	$1,768
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	93	$1,334
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	27	$1,149
Baclofen	33	$973
Duloxetine Hcl	14	$964
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	35	$777
Tamsulosin Hcl	25	$721
Pregabalin	35	$563
Tramadol Hcl	64	$517
Valsartan-HydrochlorothiazideValsartan/Hydrochlorothiazide	11	$514
Atorvastatin Calcium	65	$502

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

Company	Paid to this provider	Part D cost of their drugs
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance	$13	$18,59412 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.

Other interventional pain medicine in Granbury

Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
Duane GriffithTyler$730K
Brannon FrankAustin$698K
Robert WillsRound Rock$692K
Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$511K
Brian RichDecatur$245K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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