Has Patrick Griffith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,239 in general payments to Patrick Griffith, MD across 247 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 Patrick Griffith, 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 Patrick Griffith, 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.

Patrick Griffith, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · North Kansas City, MONPI 1366524076

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.7% of the total across 247 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 44.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,067 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $23 in 2025.

$3,239in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 247 payments — averaging $13.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$1K
Boston Scientific$571
Nevro Corp.$540
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$293
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$212
Abiomed$168
plus $24 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2648%
Food & beverage$2,97092%
Education$50%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	219	$1,432
Boston Scientific	9	$571
Nevro Corp.	10	$540
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	3	$293
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$212
Abiomed	1	$168
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$14
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$10

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

$3,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 27 interventional pain medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$240,487

Medicare patients

470

Services billed

2,052

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	506	$11,079
Pregabalin	238	$5,815
Gabapentin	279	$5,409
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	169	$5,082
Oxycodone Hcl	176	$3,932
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	71	$1,572
Tramadol Hcl	159	$1,379
Baclofen	45	$920
Duloxetine Hcl	39	$862
Methadone Hcl	29	$589
Celecoxib	14	$560
Tizanidine Hcl	40	$361
Hydromorphone Hcl	14	$275
Ibuprofen	11	$222
Lorazepam	92	$194

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in North Kansas City

Sean ClinefelterNorth Kansas City$2K
Danish ZaidiNorth Kansas City$2K
Rebecca SandersJoplin$209K
Ramis GheithBridgeton$73K
Helen BlakeChesterfield$48K
Andrew FrazierKansas City$32K
Christian OliverBridgeton$18K
David TonkinSpringfield$14K
Dwayne JonesKansas City$11K
Bradford NobleColumbia$8K

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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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