Leon Briggs, MD
Pain Medicine · Ashland, KYNPI 1255345955
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,240 of the $9,646 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Boston Scientific accounts for 60.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,642 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $686 in 2025.
Across 502 payments — averaging $19.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$6K
- Medtronic$2K
- Nevro Corp.$726
- Globus Medical$352
- Abbott$246
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$228
- plus $304 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,40725%
- Food & beverage$7,24075%
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 | 449 | $5,847 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $1,945 |
| Nevro Corp. | 11 | $726 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $352 |
| Abbott | 6 | $246 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $228 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $138 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $90 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $29 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
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.
- INTELLIS$1,432
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$1,267
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,014
- Senza$552
- mild Device Kit$228
- Vyrsa V1$148
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$134
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$122
- Proclaim DRG IPG$101
How this compares
$9,646 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 23 | $443 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $208 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 12 | $95 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Ashland
- Tejas ShahAshland$23K
- Anjum BuxDanville$595K
- Christopher MallardLexington$47K
- Vinod MuniswamyGeorgetown$39K
- John RuxerPaducah$33K
- Timothy BeachamLouisville$31K
- Mazhar RasulLexington$30K
- Lance HoffmanFlorence$22K
- Jonathan GraingerFlorence$22K
- Lasha EsebuaHenderson$20K
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.