Phillip Slack, MD
Pain Medicine · Gainesville, GANPI 1639113095
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 14 payments — averaging $26.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$115
- Vertex$59
- Nevro Corp.$58
- Globus Medical$31
- Abbott$26
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$23
- plus $59 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$372100%
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 | 5 | $115 |
| Vertex | 2 | $59 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $58 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $31 |
| Abbott | 1 | $26 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$372 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 788 | $17,969 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 840 | $16,390 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 11 | $13,677 |
| Gabapentin | 423 | $6,045 |
| Pregabalin | 229 | $4,403 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 12 | $3,431 |
| Fentanyl | 45 | $2,821 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 30 | $2,163 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 117 | $1,580 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 17 | $1,520 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 328 | $1,456 |
| Methadone Hcl | 86 | $1,282 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 37 | $713 |
| Celecoxib | 55 | $596 |
| Methocarbamol | 32 | $377 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Gainesville
- Maged HamzaGainesville$50K
- Ankur PatelGainesville$21K
- Margaret RisoGainesville$19K
- John GivogreGainesville$9K
- Stephanie SmithGainesville$6K
- Arnold WeilMarietta$286K
- Jeffrey GrossmanAtlanta$189K
- Vicente GalanStockbridge$95K
- Rutvij ShahColumbus$86K
- Anthony GrassoMarietta$79K
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.