Scott Frieary, DO
Pain Medicine · Greenville, NCNPI 1962563502
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $15,000 of the $24,094 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 73.4% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $15,920 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $148 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in NC 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 160 payments — averaging $150.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$18K
- Medtronic$4K
- Curonix LLC$533
- Nevro Corp.$513
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$370
- Abbott$221
- plus $849 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$15,00062%
- Travel & lodging$1,1975%
- Food & beverage$7,89033%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 41 | $17,691 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 72 | $3,917 |
| Curonix LLC | 8 | $533 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $513 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $370 |
| Abbott | 3 | $221 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $212 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $143 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $93 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $73 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$15,000
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$1,513
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$1,056
- INTELLIS$737
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$366
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$365
- SPRINT PNS System$316
- Qutenza$212
- Intracept$209
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$174
- Senza$146
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$139
- Omnia$135
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$130
How this compares
$24,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 182 pain medicine providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baclofen | 12 | $536 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $152 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Greenville
- Brian KeoghGreenville$24K
- Juan Firnhaber-BurgosGreenville$11K
- Patricia DoerrGreenville$9K
- Aaron CarterGreenville$8K
- James NorthWinston Salem$721K
- Leonardo KapuralWinston Salem$523K
- Christopher GilmoreWinston Salem$457K
- Richard RauckWinston Salem$431K
- Courtney AumanJacksonville$186K
- Jacob WangCharlotte$162K
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.