Jeremy Barlow, MD
Pain Medicine · Vestavia Hills, ALNPI 1669456851
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,603 of the $9,178 with a category attached, or 82.8%. Boston Scientific accounts for 75.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,820 and has fallen 58.4% since, to $1,173 in 2025.
Across 534 payments — averaging $17.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$739
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$373
- Abbott$313
- Baxter Healthcare$125
- Avanos Medical$119
- plus $583 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,57517%
- Food & beverage$7,60383%
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 | 459 | $6,926 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 9 | $739 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 22 | $373 |
| Abbott | 13 | $313 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $119 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $105 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $105 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 3 | $68 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Epimed International, Inc | 1 | $7 |
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
$9,178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 77 pain medicine providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 844 | $17,269 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 464 | $13,383 |
| Buprenorphine | 11 | $4,947 |
| Gabapentin | 390 | $3,962 |
| Lidocaine | 12 | $2,002 |
| Pregabalin | 107 | $1,375 |
| Methocarbamol | 140 | $1,101 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 49 | $932 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 106 | $714 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 77 | $499 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $336 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 55 | $252 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 15 | $210 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 16 | $146 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Vestavia Hills
- Robert NesbittVestavia Hills$7K
- Christopher PaulBirmingham$64K
- Michael CosgroveHuntsville$25K
- Ron PitkanenMountain Brk$16K
- Elliott PenningtonDaphne$15K
- James ThackerHuntsville$13K
- Grant StoneMobile$11K
- Hayden HundleyDothan$11K
- Hugh MaddoxAnniston$10K
- Nitin ChhabraHoover$9K
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.