Has Steven Hanling, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,092 in general payments to Steven Hanling, MD across 94 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 Steven Hanling, 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 Steven Hanling, 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.

Steven Hanling, MD

Pain Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1619941994

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $11,990 of the $19,092 with a category attached, or 62.8%. Avanos Medical accounts for 70.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,075, more than ten times the $31 reported in 2020. Among pain medicine clinicians in GA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$19,092in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $203.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Avanos Medical$13K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$3K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$823
Nevro Corp.$486
Boston Scientific$230
plus $342 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$11,99063%
Travel & lodging$3,27217%
Food & beverage$3,83020%

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
Avanos Medical	13	$13,469
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	29	$2,708
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	12	$1,034
Medtronic	11	$823
Nevro Corp.	10	$486
Boston Scientific	6	$230
Globus Medical	5	$152
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$71
MML US, Inc.	1	$41
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$21
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$20
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$19
AbbVie	1	$17

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

$19,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$158,756

Medicare patients

331

Services billed

7,067

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	1,121	$29,060
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	759	$17,805
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl	14	$16,390
Buprenorphine	66	$16,267
Pregabalin	326	$6,583
Fentanyl	62	$4,680
Gabapentin	172	$2,578
Oxycodone Hcl	134	$1,931
Tramadol Hcl	157	$1,348
Naloxone Hcl	12	$916
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	53	$884
Tizanidine Hcl	76	$753
Duloxetine Hcl	25	$290
Methocarbamol	21	$252
Hydromorphone Hcl	27	$241

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Augusta

Zhuo SunAugusta$26K
Rutvij ShahColumbus$86K
Siddardth UmapathyFort Eisenhower$41K
Susheel DuaAtlanta$36K
Subodh AgrawalAthens$34K
Jose MathewLawrenceville$27K
Maged HamzaGainesville$24K
Ankur PatelGainesville$21K
Margaret RisoGainesville$19K
Harsh DangariaMarietta$18K

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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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