Carl Bevering, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tupelo, MSNPI 1215909171
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,300 of the $3,452 with a category attached, or 66.6%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spineology Inc. at 49.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,000 and has fallen 92.5% since, to $149 in 2025.
Across 86 payments — averaging $40.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spineology Inc.$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$298
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$275
- Medtronic$142
- AstraZeneca$107
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$89
- plus $817 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,11932%
- Food & beverage$2,30067%
- Entertainment$341%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spineology Inc. | 13 | $1,724 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 12 | $298 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 9 | $275 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $142 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $107 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $89 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $79 |
| Stryker | 2 | $69 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $51 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $46 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Arkis Biosciences Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 54 neurological surgery providers in Mississippi.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 28 | $495 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 34 | $339 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $192 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 21 | $190 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $66 |
| Meloxicam | 19 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Tupelo
- Joaquin HidalgoTupelo$11K
- Elbert WhiteTupelo$3K
- Louis RosaTupelo$624
- Daniel DuranTupelo$554
- John WinestoneTupelo$191
- Richard BoboTupelo$69
- Eric WolfsonGulfport$260K
- Allison StricklandJackson$75K
- Remi NaderGulfport$30K
- Jason StacyJackson$28K
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.