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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,775 in general payments to Robert Sawyer, MD across 90 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 Sawyer, 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 Sawyer, 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 Sawyer, MD

Pain Medicine · Las Vegas, NVNPI 1902237704

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,727 of the $5,775 with a category attached, or 64.5%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,017, 2.0 times the $995 reported in 2021.

$5,775in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $64.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
Nalu Medical, Inc.$823
Nevro Corp.$747
Boston Scientific$500
Abbott$243
plus $558 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,20421%
Food & beverage$3,72765%
Education$84415%

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
Medtronic	32	$1,633
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	11	$1,270
Nalu Medical, Inc.	12	$823
Nevro Corp.	4	$747
Boston Scientific	13	$500
Abbott	3	$243
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	2	$146
AbbVie	3	$91
Protega Pharmaceutials Inc	1	$74
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$63
Globus Medical	2	$58
Bioventus LLC	1	$40
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	2	$36
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$18
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$15

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

$5,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 101 pain medicine providers in Nevada.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$187,007

Medicare patients

328

Services billed

6,170

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	671	$14,657
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	452	$13,575
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	25	$10,842
Lidocaine	51	$3,375
Pregabalin	122	$3,154
Oxycodone Hcl	141	$2,793
Gabapentin	218	$2,736
Tramadol Hcl	224	$2,660
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	83	$2,322
Morphine Sulfate	54	$1,718
Fentanyl	15	$1,518
Naloxone Hcl	18	$1,080
Tizanidine Hcl	109	$1,077
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	128	$1,006
Baclofen	69	$796

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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