Has Jacob Byers, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,314 in general payments to Jacob Byers, MD across 81 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 Jacob Byers, 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 Jacob Byers, 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.

Jacob Byers, MD

Pain Medicine · Chickasha, OKNPI 1184121782

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,803 of the $4,314 with a category attached, or 88.1%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 37.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,286 and has fallen 60.6% since, to $901 in 2025.

$4,314in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $53.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$2K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$718
Abbott$502
Medtronic$494
Nevro Corp.$468
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$216
plus $309 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$51212%
Food & beverage$3,80388%

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	17	$1,607
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	16	$718
Abbott	16	$502
Medtronic	12	$494
Nevro Corp.	6	$468
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	5	$216
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$84
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$81
Globus Medical	2	$61
Stryker	1	$31
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$21
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$16
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$15

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

$4,314 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 68 pain medicine providers in Oklahoma.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$184,999

Medicare patients

264

Services billed

2,225

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	457	$9,203
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	149	$3,514
Gabapentin	97	$987
Fentanyl	12	$780
Duloxetine Hcl	31	$774
Pregabalin	81	$640
Tramadol Hcl	78	$567
Buprenorphine Hcl	12	$495
Celecoxib	18	$362
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	16	$359
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	25	$300
Oxycodone Hcl	33	$262
Methadone Hcl	11	$133
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	20	$113
Naproxen	17	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Chickasha

Jeffrey MillerChickasha$675
Sailesh ArulkumarOklahoma City$162K
Emily PollardOklahoma City$134K
James StephensNorman$39K
Tyler PhillipsOklahoma City$36K
Jeffrey MillerMoore$33K
Nevinson SamEdmond$27K
John NelsonOklahoma City$26K
Rafael JustizOklahoma City$25K
Bruce MackeyEdmond$14K

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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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