Has Steven Simmons received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,536 in general payments to Steven Simmons across 355 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 Simmons 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 Simmons 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 Simmons

Interventional Pain Medicine · Fort Worth, TXNPI 1104815505

Payments from drug & device makers

$16,536in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 355 payments — averaging $46.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$7K
Avanos Medical$3K
Amgen$511
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$474
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$472
Angiodynamics, Inc.$372
plus $4K from 43 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$2,98431%
Travel & lodging$2342%
Food & beverage$6,49967%
Education$210%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	79	$7,430
Avanos Medical	3	$3,022
Amgen(2 entities)	27	$511
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	31	$474
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	34	$472
Angiodynamics, Inc.	3	$372
Medtronic(3 entities)	5	$371
Stratus Medical, LLC	5	$336
Pfizer	22	$323
Arthrex	4	$272
Almatica Pharma LLC	18	$262
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	16	$261
Pylant Medical	5	$251
MML US, Inc.	5	$225
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	10	$191
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	5	$183
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	9	$167
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$152
Vision Quest Industries Inc.	3	$148
Boston Scientific	7	$128
Lundbeck LLC	2	$102
Vertex	4	$84
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	5	$77
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$70
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$64
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$53
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$51
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$46
Protega Pharmaceutials Inc	2	$45
Nevro Corp.	3	$43
Painteq LLC	1	$31
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$30
MDD US Operations, LLC	2	$30
Shionogi Inc	1	$22
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$22
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$21
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$18
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	1	$18
DJO, LLC	1	$17
Curonix LLC	1	$16
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$15
Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC	1	$15
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13
Bsn Medical Inc	1	$12
Novartis	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.

How this compares

$16,536 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	13	$5,773
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	105	$2,774
Oxycodone Hcl	34	$1,104
Gabapentin	29	$427
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	19	$399
Tizanidine Hcl	22	$288
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	13	$238
Methocarbamol	20	$230
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine	12	$176

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Fort Worth

Timothy RatinoFort Worth$139K
Robert MenziesFort Worth$85K
Ashley ClassenFort Worth$43K
Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
Duane GriffithTyler$730K
Brannon FrankAustin$698K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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