Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Leon Briggs

Pain Medicine Ashland, KY Medical Doctor

NPI 1255345955 CMS profile 329173

617 23Rd St Ste 8B, Ashland, KY 41101

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General payments

$9,646

502 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Leon Briggs of Ashland, KY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $9,646 across 502 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 80th percentile of Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $686 57
2024 General $1,303 117
2023 General $566 55
2022 General $455 32
2021 General $718 51
2020 General $1,277 84
2019 General $4,642 106

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Leon Briggs
  • Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Leon Briggs were reported at $686. Among 2,779 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $458 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,401.

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Year Leon Briggs Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $4,642 $498 $126–$1,682 $163
2020 $1,277 $284 $80–$910 $114
2021 $718 $399 $112–$1,219 $132
2022 $455 $455 $137–$1,484 $149
2023 $566 $484 $128–$1,495 $160
2024 $1,303 $498 $131–$1,540 $164
2025 $686 $458 $124–$1,401 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Boston Scientific Corporation $5,847 449 payments
  2. Medtronic USA, Inc. $1,900 21 payments
  3. Nevro Corp. $726 11 payments
  4. Globus Medical, Inc. $352 4 payments
  5. Abbott Laboratories $246 6 payments
  6. Vertos Medical, Inc. $228 2 payments
  7. SI-BONE, Inc. $138 3 payments
  8. Spinal Simplicity, LLC $90 1 payment
  9. Medtronic, Inc. $45 1 payment
  10. Avanos Medical $29 1 payment
  11. Other $47 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $7,240 497 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $2,407 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SPECTRA WAVEWRITER $2,125 115 payments
  2. INTELLIS $1,883 20 payments
  3. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $1,446 217 payments
  4. General Therapies $781 15 payments
  5. General - Therapies $582 12 payments
  6. Senza Spinal Cord Stimulator $540 7 payments
  7. GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT $318 18 payments
  8. WAVEWRITER ALPHA $256 32 payments
  9. mild Device Kit $228 2 payments
  10. Senza Spinal Cord Stimulator $203 3 payments
  11. Other $1,131 59 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 3 drugs

Part D claims

50

Median for Pain Management: 951

Drug cost

$746

Median for Pain Management: $26,034

Branded share of claims

46%

Median for Pain Management: 29.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 23 $443
Gabapentin Generic 15 $208
Hydromorphone Hcl Generic 12 $95

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,732 Part D prescribers listed as Pain Management; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 15 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$48,005

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

244

Average age 70

Services billed

598

137 women, 107 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 39%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Depression 33%
COPD 30%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
Heart failure 20%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

502 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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