Has Charles Bryant, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,584 in general payments to Charles Bryant, MD across 209 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 Charles Bryant, 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 Charles Bryant, 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.

Charles Bryant, MD

Pain Medicine · San Antonio, TXNPI 1376854075

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 71.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$22,584in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 209 payments — averaging $108.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$16K
Boston Scientific$4K
Abbott$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$668
Si-bone, Inc.$210
Nevro Corp.$192
plus $124 from 3 others

$5,900in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $2950.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Medtronic$6K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$9,12340%
Travel & lodging$6,18227%
Food & beverage$6,91431%
Education$3662%

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)	153	$16,043
Boston Scientific	23	$3,751
Abbott	18	$1,595
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$668
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$210
Nevro Corp.	2	$192
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$63
Stryker	1	$49
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$11

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

$22,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$345,376

Medicare patients

623

Services billed

3,332

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	599	$16,975
Gabapentin	1,319	$15,064
Pregabalin	789	$9,903
Methocarbamol	497	$7,401
Topiramate ErTopiramate	12	$6,852
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	211	$5,875
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	14	$5,478
Lidocaine	51	$4,690
Celecoxib	250	$4,553
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	155	$3,374
Fentanyl	16	$3,135
Tizanidine Hcl	304	$3,063
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	198	$2,400
Duloxetine Hcl	170	$2,097
Meloxicam	396	$1,518

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in San Antonio

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Prabhdeep GrewalSan Antonio$48K
Roberto DiazSan Antonio$37K
Ricardo AlvaradoSan Antonio$23K
Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
Grant ChenHouston$175K

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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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