Gregory Spellman, MD
Pain Medicine · Savannah, GANPI 1407083207
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,592 of the $8,470 with a category attached, or 89.6%. Boston Scientific accounts for 89.2% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 344 payments — averaging $24.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$8K
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$143
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$131
- Nevro Corp.$118
- Globus Medical$91
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$85
- plus $348 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$83310%
- Food & beverage$7,59290%
- Education$451%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 308 | $7,554 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $143 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $118 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $91 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Vertex | 2 | $54 |
| Abbott | 3 | $50 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- NA$833
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$698
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$368
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$142
- Hymovis$113
- TRILURON$113
How this compares
$8,470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.
Medicare billing
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 | 1,016 | $21,168 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 722 | $20,661 |
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 24 | $18,718 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 26 | $18,002 |
| Buprenorphine | 69 | $13,459 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 21 | $11,723 |
| Pregabalin | 536 | $9,100 |
| Lidocaine | 86 | $7,881 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 15 | $7,762 |
| Gabapentin | 726 | $7,101 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 13 | $6,915 |
| Fentanyl | 69 | $5,773 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 215 | $5,026 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 319 | $4,881 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 699 | $4,655 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $143 | $18,71824 claims |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca | $66 | $11,72321 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 203 pain medicine providers in Georgia.
Other pain medicine in Savannah
- Keith KirbySavannah$8K
- Rutvij ShahColumbus$86K
- Siddardth UmapathyFort Eisenhower$41K
- Susheel DuaAtlanta$36K
- Subodh AgrawalAthens$34K
- Jose MathewLawrenceville$27K
- Zhuo SunAugusta$26K
- Maged HamzaGainesville$24K
- Ankur PatelGainesville$21K
- Margaret RisoGainesville$19K
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.