David Byrd, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1720173164
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,197 of the $7,299 with a category attached, or 71.2%. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 25.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,083 and has fallen 78.9% since, to $650 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $7,299.
Across 303 payments — averaging $24.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$695
- AbbVie$583
- Pfizer$482
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$345
- plus $2K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,10229%
- Food & beverage$5,19771%
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.
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.
- Intracept$4,326
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,035
- Dayvigo$119
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$117
How this compares
$7,299 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 26 interventional pain medicine providers in Utah.
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 | 56 | $16,810 |
| Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm | 11 | $14,883 |
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 14 | $14,505 |
| Pregabalin | 172 | $8,583 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 361 | $8,133 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 118 | $5,576 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 133 | $4,651 |
| Gabapentin | 150 | $3,867 |
| Celecoxib | 73 | $2,281 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 56 | $1,206 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 49 | $1,150 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 73 | $1,003 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 85 | $858 |
| Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine | 11 | $700 |
| Methocarbamol | 52 | $568 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerNurtec Odt | $482 | $14,50514 claims |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate | $28 | $8411 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 50th percentile of 26 interventional pain medicine providers in Utah.
Other interventional pain medicine in Salt Lake City
- Jie LuoSalt Lake City$8K
- John HongSalt Lake City$6K
- Richard GlinesSalt Lake City$4K
- Bryan HoelzerVineyard$718K
- Nathan ClementsSaint George$29K
- Rick ObraySt George$23K
- Brian RichardsonLogan$19K
- Alex NelsonMurray$17K
- Steven LarsenSaint George$14K
- J Riley StringhamProvo$13K
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.