Richard Plowey, MD
Pain Medicine · Washington, PANPI 1154532612
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Tersera Therapeutics LLC at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $7,094 and has fallen 73.5% since, to $1,882 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 384 payments — averaging $54.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$9K
- Abbott$5K
- Medtronic$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- Appliedvr Inc$567
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$515
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,85233%
- Travel & lodging$2,14810%
- Food & beverage$11,74057%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 90 | $9,306 |
| Abbott | 143 | $4,735 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 31 | $1,833 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 13 | $1,527 |
| Appliedvr Inc | 4 | $567 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 7 | $515 |
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $442 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $364 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $293 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $133 |
| Amgen | 8 | $125 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 6 | $113 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $102 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $100 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $73 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Vertex | 1 | $19 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PRIALT$7,055
- Intracept$5,276
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$998
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$592
- PROCLAIM$591
- RelieVRx$500
- SPRINT PNS System$354
- Proclaim IPG$311
- ETERNA$172
- iFuse Implant$147
- INTELLIS$143
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$128
- SYNCHROMED$117
- Axium$101
- SYNCHROMEDII$101
How this compares
$20,740 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 | 72 | $838 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 75 | $824 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 48 | $506 |
| Pregabalin | 11 | $457 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 16 | $431 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $183 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 12 | $111 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $76 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $73 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Washington
- Peter PryzbylkowskiPhiladelphia$506K
- Yeshvant NavalgundGreensburg$388K
- Jack SmithWilliamsport$324K
- Sanjay GuptaBala Cynwyd$241K
- Vwaire OrhurhuWilliamsport$191K
- Philip KimBryn Mawr$128K
- Ajay WasanPittsburgh$66K
- Sanjay ShahSpring House$64K
- Soon JungAllentown$58K
- Bruce NicholsonAllentown$58K
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.