Joshua Tucker, DO
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Pascagoula, MSNPI 1740500958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.6%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinefrontier, Inc. at 45.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,557, more than ten times the $173 reported in 2019.
Across 92 payments — averaging $49.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinefrontier, Inc.$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Nevro Corp.$263
- Abbott$257
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$204
- MML US, Inc.$155
- plus $417 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,84941%
- Food & beverage$2,64859%
- Education$251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinefrontier, Inc. | 4 | $2,042 |
| Boston Scientific | 41 | $1,183 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $263 |
| Abbott | 10 | $257 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 7 | $204 |
| MML US, Inc. | 4 | $155 |
| Curonix LLC | 4 | $94 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $93 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $43 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $35 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
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.
- InSpan$1,995
- SIJFuse$1,995
- FacetFuse$1,995
- NanoFuse$1,995
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$362
- Intracept$131
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$120
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$111
- ReActiv8$106
How this compares
$4,522 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 21 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Mississippi.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 350 | $7,873 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 224 | $6,945 |
| Gabapentin | 192 | $2,350 |
| Pregabalin | 61 | $1,021 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 12 | $572 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $357 |
| Methocarbamol | 32 | $344 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 24 | $234 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 33 | $225 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $120 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 43 | $90 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Pascagoula
- Philip BlountJackson$103K
- Samuel PolkSouthaven$6K
- Parker BellHattiesburg$5K
- Devin WellsOxford$2K
- Barbara BarnardHattiesburg$2K
- Michael WinkelmanFlowood$2K
- David CollippFlowood$2K
- Jennifer May VillacortaJackson$1K
- Hyung KimJackson$1K
- George Kum-NjiJackson$1K
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.