Has Elliott Pennington, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,734 in general payments to Elliott Pennington, MD across 237 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 Elliott Pennington, 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 Elliott Pennington, 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.

Elliott Pennington, MD

Pain Medicine · Daphne, ALNPI 1093203895

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,926 of the $14,734 with a category attached, or 60.6%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 59.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,778 and has fallen 70.4% since, to $1,711 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$14,734in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 237 payments — averaging $62.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$9K
Medtronic$3K
Nevro Corp.$420
Globus Medical$390
Abbott$363
Si-bone, Inc.$273
plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5,80939%
Food & beverage$8,92661%

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
Boston Scientific	133	$8,817
Medtronic	35	$3,119
Nevro Corp.	10	$420
Globus Medical	16	$390
Abbott	4	$363
Si-bone, Inc.	4	$273
Stryker	2	$221
DJO, LLC	4	$182
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	5	$174
MML US, Inc.	7	$164
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$113
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$106
Curonix LLC	1	$79
Merck	5	$72
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$62
Valinor Pharma, LLC	3	$49
Biotronik NRO, Inc.	1	$48
Intuitive Surgical	1	$43
Avanos Medical	1	$21
Prime Surgical, LLC	1	$18

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.

INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$2,184
GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,239
Intracept$1,118
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$626
Superion Indirect Decompression System$500
Senza$387
mild Device Kit$327
PROCLAIM$317
SYNCHROMEDII$118
ReActiv8$100

How this compares

$14,734 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 77 pain medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$132,976

Medicare patients

330

Services billed

1,696

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	124	$2,541
Pregabalin	157	$2,076
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	135	$2,025
Diclofenac Sodium	38	$1,369
Gabapentin	120	$1,257
Tramadol Hcl	151	$1,095
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	93	$876
Celecoxib	71	$771
Baclofen	31	$443
Tizanidine Hcl	44	$391
Methylprednisolone	39	$310
Meloxicam	90	$233
Methadone Hcl	12	$217
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	20	$143
Topiramate	12	$62

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Daphne

Christopher PaulBirmingham$64K
Michael CosgroveHuntsville$25K
Ron PitkanenMountain Brk$16K
James ThackerHuntsville$13K
Grant StoneMobile$11K
Hayden HundleyDothan$11K
Hugh MaddoxAnniston$10K
Jeremy BarlowVestavia Hills$9K
Nitin ChhabraHoover$9K
Casey LongMontgomery$9K

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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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