Joseph Richards, DO
Pain Medicine · Haverford, PANPI 1780743914
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $16.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.$154
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$99
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$76
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$46
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$34
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$19
- plus $29 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$457100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 11 | $154 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 294 pain medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 376 | $6,549 |
| Pregabalin | 243 | $4,915 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 121 | $2,215 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 103 | $2,137 |
| Fentanyl | 28 | $1,910 |
| Celecoxib | 73 | $1,620 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 86 | $1,261 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 112 | $1,150 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 50 | $1,103 |
| Methylprednisolone | 149 | $882 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 150 | $652 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 16 | $583 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 38 | $415 |
| Topiramate | 36 | $393 |
| Meloxicam | 83 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Haverford
- Daniel GruenerPhiladelphia$2.9M
- Peter PryzbylkowskiPhiladelphia$508K
- Yeshvant NavalgundGreensburg$388K
- Jack SmithWilliamsport$324K
- Sanjay GuptaBala Cynwyd$241K
- Vwaire OrhurhuWilliamsport$191K
- Philip KimBryn Mawr$178K
- Farooq QureshiQuakertown$130K
- Matthew DrakeleyCoraopolis$99K
- Bruce NicholsonAllentown$85K
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.