Christopher Sobey, MD
Pain Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1720221831
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,038 of the $9,848 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 71.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,647, more than ten times the $100 reported in 2019.
Across 24 payments — averaging $410.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$374
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$362
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$148
- Comsort, Inc$100
- plus $66 from 1 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $125.00 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.
- Indivior Inc.$125
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,03861%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,80018%
- Travel & lodging$6917%
- Food & beverage$1,31913%
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 | 8 | $6,998 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 4 | $1,800 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $374 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $362 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $148 |
| Comsort, Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Stryker | 2 | $66 |
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.
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$5,351
- CRYSVITA$1,800
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$868
- Evoke$362
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$155
- BRIDION$100
How this compares
$9,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 112 pain medicine providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 49 | $9,118 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 36 | $6,231 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 162 | $4,211 |
| Gabapentin | 126 | $2,647 |
| Celecoxib | 36 | $1,538 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 88 | $1,454 |
| Pregabalin | 73 | $1,240 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 99 | $1,198 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 15 | $1,046 |
| Mupirocin | 72 | $576 |
| Memantine Hcl | 15 | $482 |
| Methocarbamol | 31 | $348 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 32 | $242 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 30 | $231 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 65 | $202 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Nashville
- Shravani DurbhakulaNashville$353K
- Herbert MeltzerNashville$43K
- Marc HuntoonNashville$37K
- Puneet MishraNashville$32K
- Jeremy WalkerNashville$25K
- Damita BryantNashville$18K
- Tigran KesayanNashville$13K
- Alex SchmidtNashville$10K
- Victor IsaacNashville$7K
- Barbara SchooleyNashville$6K
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.