Philip Spinella
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1205805678
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $361,450 of the $391,144 with a category attached, or 92.4%. Cerus Corporation accounts for 98.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pediatric critical care medicine clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 113 payments — averaging $3461.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cerus Corporation$385K
- Partner Therapeutics, Inc.$3K
- Haemonetics Corporation$2K
- American National Red Cross$567
- Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc.$555
- Hemosonics LLC$167
- plus $357 from 4 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $7503.68 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cerus Corporation$81K
- Terumo BCT, Inc.$19K
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$18K
- Haemonetics Corporation$10K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$361,45092%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,8002%
- Travel & lodging$13,9274%
- Food & beverage$6,8282%
- Gifts$1120%
- Entertainment$270%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cerus Corporation | 96 | $384,769 |
| Partner Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $2,554 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 3 | $2,175 |
| American National Red Cross | 1 | $567 |
| Grifols Shared Services North America, Inc. | 2 | $555 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 2 | $167 |
| Arrow International, Inc. | 2 | $155 |
| Werfen USA LLC | 1 | $73 |
| North American Rescue, LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $64 |
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
$391,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 46 pediatric critical care medicine providers in Missouri.
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Other pediatric critical care medicine in Saint Louis
- Avihu GazitSaint Louis$9K
- Dzmitry MatsiukevichSaint Louis$4K
- Jason WernerSaint Louis$4K
- Paul ChecchiaSaint Louis$3K
- Katie WolfeSaint Louis$248
- Amanda EmkeSaint Louis$234
- Edon RabinowitzSaint Louis$171
- Ahmad HamedSaint Louis$151
- Erik MadsenSaint Louis$136
- Jennifer DuncanSaint Louis$98
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.