Has Syreeta Spears received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,205 in general payments to Syreeta Spears across 156 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 Syreeta Spears 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 Syreeta Spears 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.

Syreeta Spears

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Aurora, CONPI 1972950020

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $6,250 of the $9,205 with a category attached, or 67.9%. AbbVie accounts for 76.5% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,160, more than ten times the $120 reported in 2021. Among psychiatric/mental health clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$9,205in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 156 payments — averaging $59.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$7K
Corium, LLC$326
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$222
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$195
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$189
Lundbeck LLC$169
plus $1K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$6,25068%
Food & beverage$2,95532%

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
AbbVie	47	$7,045
Corium, LLC	17	$326
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$222
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$195
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	10	$189
Lundbeck LLC	9	$169
Alkermes, Inc.	7	$154
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	7	$123
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	6	$121
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	6	$120
Tris Pharma Inc	3	$77
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	4	$76
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$68
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$65
Johnson & Johnson	2	$46
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	2	$42
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$42
Tempus AI, Inc	2	$34
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$29
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$24
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$21
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$16

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.

VRAYLAR$6,250

How this compares

$9,205 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 873 psychiatric/mental health providers in Colorado.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Quetiapine Fumarate ErQuetiapine Fumarate	12	$755

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatric/mental health in Aurora

Pinkie FittsAurora$444K
Marc WebbAurora$9K
Karen LydaAurora$7K
Chelsie MonroeLittleton$998K
Audrey StrockDenver$499K
Mark JankelowColorado Springs$287K
Cristi BundukamaraColorado Springs$230K
Deborah YorkDenver$158K
Shelley AbadiLakewood$19K
James AndersonWheat Ridge$18K

See the full list for Colorado →

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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