Jerry Tarver, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Abilene, TXNPI 1235170671
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,166 of the $7,522 with a category attached, or 68.7%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 43.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,047 and has fallen 54.3% since, to $1,394 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $6,464.
Across 175 payments — averaging $42.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Curonix LLC$606
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$279
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$254
- plus $979 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,35631%
- Food & beverage$5,16669%
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 | 81 | $3,268 |
| Boston Scientific | 32 | $1,101 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 14 | $1,034 |
| Curonix LLC | 6 | $606 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 9 | $279 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 5 | $254 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $219 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 4 | $208 |
| Painteq LLC | 3 | $113 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $105 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $49 |
| Novartis | 1 | $49 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $17 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 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
$7,522 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 287 interventional 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,476 | $40,739 |
| Pregabalin | 505 | $10,418 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 14 | $9,100 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 213 | $3,993 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 158 | $3,985 |
| Buprenorphine | 17 | $3,693 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 113 | $2,618 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 303 | $1,827 |
| Gabapentin | 133 | $1,803 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 52 | $1,165 |
| Fentanyl | 19 | $1,000 |
| Methocarbamol | 48 | $710 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $653 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 11 | $545 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 25 | $340 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Abilene
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.1M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1M
- Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$277K
- Brian RichDecatur$245K
- Brian BruelHouston$219K
- Bolkar SahinlerLubbock$188K
- Timothy RatinoFort Worth$139K
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$125K
- Thomas WhiteShenandoah$118K
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.