Has Matthew Rupert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,695 in general payments to Matthew Rupert, MD across 185 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 Matthew Rupert, 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 Matthew Rupert, 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.

Matthew Rupert, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Franklin, TNNPI 1124012950

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. at 44.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,545 and has fallen 85.6% since, to $1,370 in 2025.

$16,695in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $90.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$7K
Boston Scientific$5K
Abbott$1K
MML US, Inc.$956
Medtronic$718
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$216
plus $891 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,20049%
Travel & lodging$2,70516%
Food & beverage$5,70534%
Entertainment$640%
Other$220%

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
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	25	$7,434
Boston Scientific	84	$5,439
Abbott	42	$1,041
MML US, Inc.	5	$956
Medtronic(2 entities)	11	$718
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$216
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$207
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	2	$171
Vertiflex, Inc.	2	$136
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$98
Vertos Medical, Inc.	3	$89
Nevro Corp.	1	$76
Flowonix Medical Incorporated	1	$64
Welch Allyn	1	$22
Curonix LLC	1	$18
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, 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.

How this compares

$16,695 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 41 interventional pain medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$114,026

Medicare patients

102

Services billed

1,137

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	42	$10,452
Fentanyl	35	$3,187
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	75	$1,439
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	13	$1,204
Lidocaine	14	$963
Gabapentin	59	$647
Oxycodone Hcl	25	$332
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	39	$292
Pregabalin	13	$201
Tizanidine Hcl	32	$188
Baclofen	14	$107
Tramadol Hcl	23	$82
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	15	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Franklin

William NewtonWinchester$225K
Ryan BearerWinchester$35K
Michael WilkinsonJohnson City$35K
Jacob MillsMountain Home$24K
Matthew KangasMemphis$22K
Adolfo CuadraKnoxville$15K
Cameron ShawverJohnson City$15K
Christine LeslieMorristown$12K
Madhu YelameliColumbia$12K
John WelkerAntioch$9K

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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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