James Stonecipher, MD
Pain Medicine · Bryan, TXNPI 1497716179
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,119 of the $1,553 with a category attached, or 72.1%. Abbott accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,109 and has fallen 85.7% since, to $158 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,132.
Across 43 payments — averaging $36.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$994
- Medtronic$211
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$108
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$52
- Novartis$49
- Boston Scientific$49
- plus $90 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$37524%
- Food & beverage$1,11972%
- Education$594%
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 | 22 | $994 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $211 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $108 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $52 |
| Novartis | 1 | $49 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $49 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $30 |
| Avanos Medical | 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
$1,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 26 | $22,743 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 497 | $12,146 |
| Fentanyl | 101 | $11,270 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 142 | $5,167 |
| Gabapentin | 240 | $3,571 |
| Buprenorphine | 15 | $3,443 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 73 | $2,419 |
| Pregabalin | 105 | $2,257 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 14 | $1,453 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 11 | $1,333 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 64 | $903 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 106 | $851 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 37 | $843 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 17 | $714 |
| Celecoxib | 21 | $675 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Bryan
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
- Puneet SayalCorpus Christi$153K
- Eduardo GarciaWebster$147K
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.