Robert Sutherland, MD
Pain Medicine · Tyler, TXNPI 1033112933
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,681 of the $6,020 with a category attached, or 77.8%. Abbott accounts for 60.0% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,902 and has fallen 76.8% since, to $441 in 2025.
Across 187 payments — averaging $32.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$4K
- Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$815
- Medtronic$375
- Nevro Corp.$205
- Boston Scientific$180
- MML US, Inc.$160
- plus $670 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,27321%
- Food & beverage$4,68178%
- Education$511%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 124 | $3,613 |
| Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. | 6 | $815 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $375 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $205 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $180 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 8 | $114 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $105 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $104 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $51 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,186
- SACROILIAC JOINT FUSION SYSTEM$620
- OCTRODE$164
- Proclaim IPG$133
- INTELLIS$130
- Vanta$117
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$113
- ReActiv8$102
How this compares
$6,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 | 1,306 | $47,074 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 28 | $10,955 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 188 | $6,655 |
| Lidocaine | 43 | $5,078 |
| Gabapentin | 340 | $3,740 |
| Pregabalin | 154 | $3,518 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 197 | $3,111 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 37 | $2,347 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 151 | $2,307 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 71 | $2,164 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 177 | $2,148 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 59 | $1,713 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 59 | $1,500 |
| Fentanyl | 11 | $1,439 |
| Methocarbamol | 104 | $1,212 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Tyler
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$296K
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$653K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$514K
- Candice BurnetteSugar Land$265K
- Ashley Bailey-ClassenFort Worth$244K
- Grant ChenHouston$175K
- Gunjan PatelHouston$166K
- Anthony BergRockwall$165K
- Puneet SayalCorpus Christi$153K
- Eduardo GarciaWebster$147K
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.