Has Sean Clinefelter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,399 in general payments to Sean Clinefelter, MD across 257 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 Sean Clinefelter, MD 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 Sean Clinefelter, MD 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.

Sean Clinefelter, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · North Kansas City, MONPI 1447332168

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.4% of the total across 257 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 73.5% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $860 and has fallen 84.8% since, to $130 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $2,673.

$2,399in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 257 payments — averaging $9.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$2K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$212
Boston Scientific$169
Nevro Corp.$130
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$119
Vertos Medical, Inc.$6

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$372%
Food & beverage$2,36198%

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)	247	$1,762
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	3	$212
Boston Scientific	3	$169
Nevro Corp.	2	$130
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$119
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$6

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

$2,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 27 interventional pain medicine providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$241,549

Medicare patients

517

Services billed

1,902

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	654	$15,737
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	19	$7,376
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	269	$6,541
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate	12	$6,490
Oxycodone Hcl	137	$3,410
Pregabalin	119	$2,782
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	74	$1,976
Gabapentin	90	$1,577
Tramadol Hcl	282	$1,405
Morphine Sulfate	18	$499
Baclofen	29	$461
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	14	$207
Tizanidine Hcl	19	$117
Meloxicam	12	$45
Diazepam	13	$8

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in North Kansas City

Patrick GriffithNorth Kansas City$3K
Danish ZaidiNorth Kansas City$2K
Rebecca SandersJoplin$209K
Ramis GheithBridgeton$73K
Helen BlakeChesterfield$48K
Andrew FrazierKansas City$32K
Christian OliverBridgeton$18K
David TonkinSpringfield$14K
Dwayne JonesKansas City$11K
Bradford NobleColumbia$8K

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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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