Has Neal Blauzvern received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,495 in general payments to Neal Blauzvern across 328 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 Neal Blauzvern 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 Neal Blauzvern 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.

Neal Blauzvern

Pain Medicine · Austin, TXNPI 1609873603

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.0% of the total across 328 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 44 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,312 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $18 in 2025.

$8,495in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 328 payments — averaging $25.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
Medinc Of Texas$764
AbbVie$646
Nevro Corp.$599
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$519
Amgen$516
plus $4K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$7,73191%
Education$7649%

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	31	$1,434
Medinc Of Texas	1	$764
AbbVie(2 entities)	30	$646
Nevro Corp.	28	$599
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	30	$519
Amgen	11	$516
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	6	$370
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$355
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	19	$332
Boston Scientific	19	$327
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	12	$281
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	15	$274
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	16	$255
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	16	$229
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$155
Novartis	9	$144
Almatica Pharma LLC	8	$132
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$131
Pfizer	7	$119
GRT US Holding, Inc.	7	$103
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	6	$100
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$59
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	3	$57
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	4	$53
IBSA Pharma Inc.	3	$51
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$46
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$40
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$40
Johnson & Johnson	2	$38
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$36
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$34
Shionogi Inc	2	$32
AstraZeneca	2	$32
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$28
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$20
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$20
MML US, Inc.	1	$19
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$17
Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$15
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$13
Convatec Inc.	1	$13
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$11

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

$8,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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