Has Robert Spear, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,591 in general payments to Robert Spear, DO across 106 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 Spear, DO 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 Spear, DO 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 Spear, DO

Pain Medicine · Virginia Beach, VANPI 1497783153

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,293 of the $3,591 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 33.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,752, 2.4 times the $723 reported in 2019.

$3,591in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 106 payments — averaging $33.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
AbbVie$860
Medtronic$484
Lundbeck LLC$140
Globus Medical$119
Bioventus LLC$113
plus $691 from 16 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,29836%
Food & beverage$2,29364%

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
Abbott	13	$1,184
AbbVie(2 entities)	48	$860
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$484
Lundbeck LLC	5	$140
Globus Medical	2	$119
Bioventus LLC	4	$113
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$105
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$78
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	4	$72
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$53
Curonix LLC	2	$46
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$45
Nevro Corp.	2	$44
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$41
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$39
Vertex	2	$33
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$28
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$27
Fortis Surgical, LLC	1	$22
Avanos Medical	1	$22
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$21
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$14

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

$3,591 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 150 pain medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$271,378

Medicare patients

437

Services billed

6,570

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	94	$1,590
Gabapentin	79	$1,500
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	47	$1,136
Tramadol Hcl	103	$1,048
Levetiracetam	35	$618
Celecoxib	16	$588
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	41	$415
Tizanidine Hcl	32	$395
Duloxetine Hcl	20	$377
Oxycodone Hcl	23	$332
Pregabalin	15	$326
Prednisone	14	$139
Meloxicam	15	$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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