Has Robert Chen received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,441 in general payments to Robert Chen across 606 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 Robert Chen 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 Robert Chen 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.

Robert Chen

Pain Medicine · Plano, TXNPI 1447241484

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,441in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 606 payments — averaging $25.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$3K
Nevro Corp.$2K
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$1K
AbbVie$1K
Abbott$989
plus $6K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,2008%
Travel & lodging$3112%
Food & beverage$13,93090%

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)	79	$2,608
Nevro Corp.	23	$1,753
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	21	$1,678
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	97	$1,057
AbbVie(2 entities)	43	$1,012
Abbott	32	$989
Amgen(2 entities)	33	$927
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	55	$761
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	30	$759
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	29	$703
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	21	$406
Boston Scientific	8	$397
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	14	$279
Pfizer	16	$254
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	15	$232
Lundbeck LLC	6	$200
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$186
IBSA Pharma Inc.	11	$161
Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$106
Novartis	6	$103
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	6	$85
Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC	5	$81
Almatica Pharma LLC	3	$70
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$57
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$55
GRT US Holding, Inc.	2	$50
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	4	$48
Bioventus LLC	2	$48
Fortovia Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$38
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$38
Novo Nordisk	2	$35
Avanos Medical	2	$31
Stryker	1	$28
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$28
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	2	$27
Shionogi Inc	1	$25
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$21
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$21
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$20
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$19
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$18
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$15
Emergent Biosolutions Inc.	1	$11

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.

NURTEC ODT$1,542
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$1,255
INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$563
AIMOVIG$341
INTELLIS$288
OCTRODE$270
VECTRIS$257
UBRELVY$247
SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$139
PROCLAIM$128
MOVANTIK$122
RESTORE$114
Morphabond ER$112
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$110

How this compares

$15,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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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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