Has John Otero received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,474 in general payments to John Otero across 322 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 John Otero 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 John Otero 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.

John Otero

Pain Medicine · St Petersburg, FLNPI 1265522635

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,474in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 322 payments — averaging $20.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$850
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$647
Medtronic$625
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$487
Nevro Corp.$486
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$294
plus $3K from 29 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$6,457100%
Entertainment$160%

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)	41	$850
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	37	$647
Medtronic(2 entities)	29	$625
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	27	$487
Nevro Corp.	16	$486
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	22	$294
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	8	$233
Abbott	14	$233
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	13	$229
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	8	$207
Boston Scientific	4	$203
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	9	$201
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	14	$166
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	2	$164
Eisai Inc.	9	$163
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	9	$157
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	7	$144
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$133
AstraZeneca	7	$110
Lilly USA, LLC	7	$108
Novartis	4	$91
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	9	$86
Amgen(2 entities)	3	$71
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	3	$69
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$57
Kaleo, Inc.	3	$42
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$40
Shionogi Inc	2	$39
Pfizer	2	$30
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$25
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$21
MDD US Operations, LLC	1	$20
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$17
Flowonix Medical Incorporated	1	$16
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$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

$6,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.

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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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