Rachel Roberts, MD
Pain Medicine · Vestavia, ALNPI 1821438813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 158 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 53.0% of the total.
Across 158 payments — averaging $19.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$334
- AbbVie$207
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$165
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$93
- Nevro Corp.$92
- plus $519 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,001100%
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 | 91 | $1,591 |
| Abbott | 8 | $334 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $207 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $165 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $93 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $92 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $77 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $39 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Stryker | 2 | $30 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 77 pain medicine providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,482 | $37,784 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 895 | $25,039 |
| Gabapentin | 822 | $9,012 |
| Lidocaine | 34 | $8,067 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 94 | $6,245 |
| Pregabalin | 242 | $4,774 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 11 | $4,431 |
| Methocarbamol | 183 | $2,871 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 95 | $1,616 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 127 | $1,087 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 136 | $1,013 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 29 | $838 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 36 | $721 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 54 | $695 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 35 | $557 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Vestavia
- Erin MorellaVestavia$3K
- Robert ThomasVestavia$2K
- Christopher PaulBirmingham$64K
- Michael CosgroveHuntsville$25K
- Ron PitkanenMountain Brk$16K
- Elliott PenningtonDaphne$15K
- James ThackerHuntsville$13K
- Grant StoneMobile$11K
- Hayden HundleyDothan$11K
- Hugh MaddoxAnniston$10K
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.