John Pantuosco
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Birmingham, ALNPI 1619327913
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.7%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vertos Medical, Inc. accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $8,196 and has fallen 91.3% since, to $711 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in AL 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 85 payments — averaging $142.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$8K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- Nevro Corp.$739
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$553
- Boston Scientific$467
- Painteq LLC$377
- plus $886 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,00058%
- Travel & lodging$8807%
- Food & beverage$4,24935%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 16 | $7,504 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 11 | $1,602 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $739 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 11 | $553 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $467 |
| Painteq LLC | 8 | $377 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $246 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $203 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $125 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $85 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $34 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $25 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- mild Device Kit$7,000
- Intracept$5,808
- Omnia$444
- SPRINT PNS System$392
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$158
- PAINTEQ$131
- Senza$121
- Evoke$115
How this compares
$12,129 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 104 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Alabama.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lidocaine | 26 | $4,819 |
| Gabapentin | 199 | $1,303 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 46 | $1,011 |
| Celecoxib | 40 | $997 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 20 | $592 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $401 |
| Meloxicam | 97 | $385 |
| Pregabalin | 50 | $340 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 16 | $263 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $260 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $117 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 21 | $109 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $82 |
| Lorazepam | 13 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Birmingham
- Don McCormickBirmingham$22K
- Bradly GoodmanBirmingham$15K
- Nelson Santos AgostoBirmingham$14K
- Ross LumsdenBirmingham$11K
- Matthew BerkeBirmingham$6K
- Chong WengBirmingham$4K
- Kenneth SmithBirmingham$4K
- Srinivas MallempatiBirmingham$3K
- Aaron GreenbergBirmingham$3K
- Natalie DeanBirmingham$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.