Has Robert Nesbitt, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,457 in general payments to Robert Nesbitt, MD across 403 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 Robert Nesbitt, 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 Robert Nesbitt, 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.

Robert Nesbitt, MD

Pain Medicine · Vestavia Hills, ALNPI 1891770855

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.2% of the total across 403 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 60.1% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$7,457in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 403 payments — averaging $18.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$4K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$728
Baxter Healthcare$692
Vertos Medical, Inc.$456
Abbott$313
Avanos Medical$176
plus $613 from 13 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$5067%
Food & beverage$6,95293%

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	321	$4,480
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	7	$728
Baxter Healthcare	7	$692
Vertos Medical, Inc.	24	$456
Abbott	13	$313
Avanos Medical	3	$176
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$107
Curonix LLC	2	$105
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$90
Stability Biologics, LLC	1	$89
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$52
Amgen	2	$33
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$30
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$29
Nevro Corp.	1	$25
Elutia, Inc.	1	$18
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$14
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$14
Epimed International, Inc	1	$7

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.

Intracept$1,125
FLOSEAL$462
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$428
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$358
CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$273
mild Device Kit$151
Superion Indirect Decompression System$135
COOLIEF* COOLED RADIOFREQUENCY$119
Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$118

How this compares

$7,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 77 pain medicine providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$371,829

Medicare patients

528

Services billed

4,744

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	981	$23,171
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	603	$17,620
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	29	$14,442
Gabapentin	808	$8,183
Pregabalin	145	$4,581
Duloxetine Hcl	113	$2,160
Oxycodone Hcl	82	$2,100
Tizanidine Hcl	186	$1,472
Tramadol Hcl	168	$1,004
Methylprednisolone	97	$756
Methocarbamol	55	$617
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	11	$352
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	29	$284
Ibuprofen	12	$195
Meloxicam	26	$106

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Vestavia Hills

Jeremy BarlowVestavia Hills$9K
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
Nitin ChhabraHoover$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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