Nicholas Gentry, DO
Pain Medicine · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1629538954
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 32.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,773 and has fallen 66.7% since, to $1,589 in 2025.
Across 123 payments — averaging $86.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Medtronic$3K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- Abbott$706
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$490
- Curonix LLC$418
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,25740%
- Food & beverage$5,53752%
- Education$8858%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 25 | $3,517 |
| Medtronic | 41 | $2,508 |
| Nevro Corp. | 12 | $1,498 |
| Abbott | 8 | $706 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 9 | $490 |
| Curonix LLC | 8 | $418 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $345 |
| Stryker | 3 | $314 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $181 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $175 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Lenoss Medical Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $35 |
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.
- Senza$1,383
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$1,194
- VERCISE$711
- PROCLAIM$522
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$286
- mild Device Kit$262
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$261
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$235
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$195
- Vyrsa V1$175
- ICONIX$153
- Prospera$150
- ReActiv8$125
- McGRATH$123
- OsteoPearl$117
How this compares
$10,679 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 92 pain medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 31 | $434 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $387 |
| Methocarbamol | 15 | $177 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 13 | $162 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $145 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $68 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $63 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Murrells Inlet
- Channing WilloughbyMurrells Inlet$82K
- Matthew DaviesMurrells Inlet$12K
- Brian YeeMurrells Inlet$12K
- Phillip SmithGreenville$303K
- Richard KlineConway$104K
- Michael WarrickSumter$50K
- Daniel AtkinsonGreenville$36K
- Michael WardenFlorence$20K
- Andrew MendelsonCharleston$19K
- Sankeerth ChallagundlaColumbia$15K
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.