Has Timothy Bednar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $28,154 in general payments to Timothy Bednar, MD across 873 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 Timothy Bednar, 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 Timothy Bednar, 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.

Timothy Bednar, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Kyle, TXNPI 1699058719

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.7% of the total across 873 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Abbott accounts for 80.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$28,154in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 873 payments — averaging $32.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$23K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
Medtronic$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Painteq LLC$320
Vertos Medical, Inc.$149
plus $338 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,9757%
Food & beverage$26,08993%
Education$900%

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	701	$22,674
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	91	$1,907
Medtronic	51	$1,592
Boston Scientific	14	$1,174
Painteq LLC	5	$320
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$149
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	4	$138
Hydrocision, Inc.	2	$113
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$47
AbbVie	1	$13
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$13
Johnson & Johnson	1	$12

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

$28,154 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$465,269

Medicare patients

550

Services billed

6,337

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	1,026	$23,690
Gabapentin	996	$11,070
Pregabalin	331	$8,743
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	336	$8,627
Tizanidine Hcl	466	$5,687
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	12	$3,997
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	284	$3,088
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	12	$3,024
Lidocaine	26	$2,186
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	92	$1,937
Methocarbamol	175	$1,901
Tramadol Hcl	223	$1,561
Oxycodone Hcl	102	$1,412
Celecoxib	64	$1,162
Duloxetine Hcl	72	$1,028

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Brian RichDecatur$245K
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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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