Has Luther Oakes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,970 in general payments to Luther Oakes, MD across 39 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 Luther Oakes, 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 Luther Oakes, 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.

Luther Oakes, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Greenville, MSNPI 1215167150

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.6% of the total across 39 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merz North America, Inc. at 51.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $987 and has fallen 86.5% since, to $133 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in MS, where the typical reported total is $2,720.

$1,970in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $50.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Merz North America, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$353
Boston Scientific$250
Abbott$111
Pfizer$67
Interventional Pain Technologies Inc.$39
plus $144 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1256%
Food & beverage$1,84594%

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
Merz North America, Inc.	3	$1,006
Medtronic	12	$353
Boston Scientific	4	$250
Abbott	5	$111
Pfizer	5	$67
Interventional Pain Technologies Inc.	1	$39
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$37
AbbVie	2	$34
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$29
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Amgen	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

$1,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 24 interventional pain medicine providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$441,947

Medicare patients

259

Services billed

7,840

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	1,402	$27,940
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	11	$23,481
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	627	$15,778
Fentanyl	59	$7,855
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl	21	$4,505
Gabapentin	337	$3,463
Pregabalin	213	$2,636
Diclofenac Sodium	103	$2,539
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	72	$2,474
Oxycodone Hcl	153	$2,392
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	57	$1,565
Tizanidine Hcl	132	$1,192
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	110	$1,173
Morphine Sulfate	42	$1,103
Tramadol Hcl	119	$999

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Greenville

Leonel VanceMadison$21K
Eric PearsonMeridian$19K
Charles MartinMeridian$18K
Matthew BlanchardGulfport$10K
Kenneth StaggsMeridian$5K
Madelyn CraigMadison$5K
John LutzJackson$5K
Michael SteuerSouthaven$4K
Kelly ColemanVancleave$4K
Carol HarrisMeridian$4K

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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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