Has Lucas Bracero, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $23,676 in general payments to Lucas Bracero, MD across 260 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Lucas Bracero, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Lucas Bracero, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Lucas Bracero, MD

Pain Medicine · Charleston, WVNPI 1699270991

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,258 of the $23,676 with a category attached, or 60.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 59.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $15,439 and has fallen 73.3% since, to $4,125 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in WV with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$23,676in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 260 payments — averaging $91.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$14K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$4K
Boston Scientific$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
Curonix LLC$839
Nevro Corp.$319
plus $898 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$9,40040%
Food & beverage$14,25860%
Entertainment$180%

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	134	$14,143
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	38	$4,136
Boston Scientific	53	$2,323
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	6	$1,019
Curonix LLC	11	$839
Nevro Corp.	3	$319
MML US, Inc.	2	$209
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$180
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	5	$165
Stryker	1	$134
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$131
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$47
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	2	$31

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.

PROCLAIM$7,837
Intracept$3,554
ETERNA$3,054
Evoke$2,679
Superion Indirect Decompression System$879
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$487
mild Device Kit$295
Senza$278
Evoke SCS$175
ReActiv8$144
GENERAL - THERAPIES$131
HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$131
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$100

How this compares

$23,676 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 35 pain medicine providers in West Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$53,674

Medicare patients

203

Services billed

616

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	927	$19,216
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	367	$10,019
Oxycodone Hcl	83	$965
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	24	$879
Gabapentin	37	$596
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	11	$476
Tizanidine Hcl	31	$321
Methadone Hcl	12	$285
Pregabalin	13	$173
Tramadol Hcl	27	$151
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$44

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Charleston

Francis SaldanhaCharleston$5K
David CarawayCharleston$1K
Josiah LillyCharleston$774
Onyechi MegafuHuntington$37K
David SaldivarMorgantown$28K
Muhammad MaazHuntington$19K
Violet ShacklefordMorgantown$17K
Richard VaglientiMorgantown$13K
Gobind SinghBridgeport$8K
Ghassan MoufarregeHuntington$8K

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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.

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