Matthew Bowersox, MD
Pain Medicine · Evanston, ILNPI 1912388307
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $30,000 of the $45,998 with a category attached, or 65.2%. Boston Scientific accounts for 66.3% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $34,591 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $1,386 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in IL 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.
Across 237 payments — averaging $194.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$31K
- Abbott$8K
- Nevro Corp.$4K
- Medtronic$803
- Biotronik NRO, Inc.$787
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$656
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$30,00065%
- Travel & lodging$3,5318%
- Food & beverage$12,22127%
- Education$2461%
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 | 10 | $30,503 |
| Abbott | 114 | $7,570 |
| Nevro Corp. | 42 | $4,146 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $803 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 14 | $787 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 22 | $656 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 7 | $507 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $452 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $130 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Merck | 2 | $51 |
| Stryker | 1 | $34 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$30,111
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$2,870
- Proclaim IPG$1,966
- PROCLAIM$1,790
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,581
- Prospera$596
- ETERNA$493
- mild Device Kit$432
- SPRINT PNS System$401
- INTELLIS$301
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$285
- Senza$253
- Superion ISS$138
- Prometra II$130
- Omnia$125
- PRIALT$124
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$113
How this compares
$45,998 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine | 59 | $11,523 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 27 | $11,193 |
| Celecoxib | 58 | $2,968 |
| Lidocaine | 13 | $1,113 |
| Gabapentin | 82 | $991 |
| Baclofen | 88 | $785 |
| Pregabalin | 47 | $757 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 44 | $687 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 44 | $626 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $522 |
| Naltrexone Hcl | 15 | $373 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 16 | $308 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 24 | $271 |
| Meloxicam | 28 | $206 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 28 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Evanston
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Paul GuillodEvanston$19K
- Ava SocikEvanston$18K
- Ricardo VallejoBloomington$2.3M
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
- Steven CohenChicago$217K
- Albert SinghQuincy$212K
- Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
- Ryan KutaNaperville$114K
- Anthony LebarioElgin$87K
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.