Allen Tafel, MD
Pain Medicine · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1326041542
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $518 of the $603 with a category attached, or 85.9%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 27.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $288, 2.6 times the $111 reported in 2020. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $2,085.
Across 14 payments — averaging $43.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$168
- Vertex$120
- Stryker$95
- Baxter Healthcare$85
- Next Science LLC$71
- Medtronic$33
- plus $31 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$51886%
- Other$8514%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $168 |
| Vertex | 1 | $120 |
| Stryker | 1 | $95 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $85 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $71 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $33 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Medline Industries LP | 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.
- JOURNAVX$120
How this compares
$603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 596 pain medicine providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 11 | $60,579 |
| PercocetOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $51,027 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 20 | $40,388 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 20 | $19,971 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 209 | $6,555 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 385 | $6,138 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 638 | $4,579 |
| Gabapentin | 527 | $3,845 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 25 | $3,337 |
| Celecoxib | 176 | $3,283 |
| Lidocaine | 24 | $2,705 |
| Fentanyl | 12 | $1,714 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 129 | $1,431 |
| Methylprednisolone | 194 | $1,301 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 33 | $1,174 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Fort Myers
- Jonathan DaitchFort Myers$39K
- Velimir MicovicFort Myers$19K
- Jeffrey GudinMiami$356K
- Joseph PergolizziNaples$333K
- Ramon Cuevas-TrisanRiviera Beach$220K
- Navdeep JassalLakeland$163K
- Mark-Friedrich HurdleJacksonville$140K
- Rodolfo GariTampa$120K
- Stephen PylesOcala$115K
- Orlando FloreteJacksonville$86K
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.