Eric Pearson, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Meridian, MSNPI 1922092881
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,638 of the $18,690 with a category attached, or 78.3%. Abbott accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 34 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,060 and has fallen 52.6% since, to $1,924 in 2025. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in MS 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.
Across 361 payments — averaging $51.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$11K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$802
- MML US, Inc.$429
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,40013%
- Travel & lodging$1,6529%
- Food & beverage$14,63878%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 167 | $11,367 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 21 | $1,548 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 14 | $1,293 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $1,092 |
| Boston Scientific | 30 | $802 |
| MML US, Inc. | 6 | $429 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 4 | $393 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 9 | $344 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 15 | $239 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $128 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 4 | $125 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 7 | $121 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 7 | $65 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $63 |
| Stryker | 1 | $63 |
| Vertex | 4 | $62 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $39 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $34 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $15 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 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.
- PROCLAIM$4,025
- Intracept$3,802
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,410
- Proclaim IPG$1,384
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,215
- ETERNA$511
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$257
- ReActiv8$109
- Superion ISS$100
How this compares
$18,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 24 interventional pain medicine providers in Mississippi.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 64 | $1,097 |
| Methadone Hcl | 62 | $914 |
| Pregabalin | 39 | $598 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 31 | $507 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 18 | $282 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 16 | $138 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $135 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 23 | $120 |
| Methocarbamol | 16 | $93 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Meridian
- Charles MartinMeridian$18K
- Kenneth StaggsMeridian$5K
- Carol HarrisMeridian$4K
- Leonel VanceMadison$21K
- Matthew BlanchardGulfport$10K
- Madelyn CraigMadison$5K
- John LutzJackson$5K
- Michael SteuerSouthaven$4K
- Kelly ColemanVancleave$4K
- Thomas YearwoodPascagoula$3K
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.