Matthew McCarty
Pain Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1235132432
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $21,641 of the $25,884 with a category attached, or 83.6%. Abbott accounts for 79.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $8,440 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $208 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in TX 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 778 payments — averaging $33.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$21K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$3K
- Eminent Spine, LLC$1K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$400
- Nevro Corp.$326
- Vertiflex, Inc.$307
- plus $636 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,22516%
- Food & beverage$21,64184%
- Education$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 | 741 | $20,514 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 1 | $2,500 |
| Eminent Spine, LLC | 2 | $1,200 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 1 | $400 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $326 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 12 | $307 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $171 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 2 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $80 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Spinesmith Holdings, LLC | 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.
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$2,500
- PROCLAIM$2,311
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,369
- Eminent Spine SI Screw System$1,200
- Proclaim IPG$687
- ZAVATION$400
- Senza$148
- Superion ISS$143
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$125
- Omnia$123
- OCTRODE$117
How this compares
$25,884 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 34 | $389 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Austin
- Raj PatelAustin$120K
- Ramesh SingaAustin$34K
- Robert MousselliAustin$34K
- Mahan OstadianAustin$27K
- Raimy AmashaAustin$26K
- Sauman RafiiAustin$24K
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.