RxDoctor Payments Data

Stuart Cowley, MD

Pain Medicine · Lexington, KYNPI 1811429756

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 49.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,134, 3.0 times the $2,026 reported in 2021.

$19,394in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 249 payments — averaging $77.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$10K
  • Boston Scientific$4K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Nevro Corp.$1K
  • Globus Medical$875
  • Si-bone, Inc.$701
  • plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$9,28948%
  • Food & beverage$10,10552%

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

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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.

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

$19,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$667,534
Medicare patients
810
Services billed
6,734

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl83$67,027
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl71$53,468
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen1,514$33,998
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate19$20,577
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,028$19,878
Buprenorphine63$18,190
Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl11$12,834
Oxycodone Hcl209$4,818
ButransBuprenorphine11$3,138
Hydromorphone Hcl49$2,172
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate84$1,711
Naloxone Hcl29$1,516
Methadone Hcl95$1,437
Pregabalin47$1,436
Gabapentin141$1,309

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Xtampza Er, Nucynta Er$433$86,879101 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 90 pain medicine providers in Kentucky.

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