Armando Alvarez, MD
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Miami, FLNPI 1568969293
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,145 of the $6,177 with a category attached, or 67.1%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 33.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,887 and has fallen 75.9% since, to $938 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in FL 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 78 payments — averaging $79.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Curonix LLC$938
- Medtronic$699
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$509
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$430
- Nevro Corp.$302
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,03233%
- Food & beverage$4,14567%
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 | 15 | $2,043 |
| Curonix LLC | 7 | $938 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $699 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 5 | $509 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 10 | $430 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $302 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $274 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $244 |
| Stryker | 1 | $160 |
| Gilead | 6 | $153 |
| Vertex | 2 | $144 |
| Biogen | 3 | $64 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $62 |
| Saol Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,795
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$740
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$491
- Evoke$425
- Senza$274
- OPTABLATE$160
- SPRINT PNS System$134
- JOURNAVX$122
- Intracept$118
How this compares
$6,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 618 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 57 | $1,168 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 84 | $1,009 |
| Gabapentin | 115 | $925 |
| Meloxicam | 272 | $831 |
| Methocarbamol | 64 | $451 |
| Baclofen | 25 | $392 |
| Methylprednisolone | 50 | $353 |
| Naproxen | 23 | $288 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 27 | $252 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $245 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $196 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 14 | $97 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $82 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $57 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Miami
- Kaivalya DeshpandeMiami$22K
- Amir MahajerMiami$11K
- Lucinda ArenasMiami$9K
- Edward SuarezMiami$8K
- Seyed MostoufiMiami$8K
- Zainab Al-LawatiMiami$4K
- Anthony GiuffridaFort Lauderdale$271K
- Ryan HafnerSarasota$164K
- Cassandra ListJacksonville$154K
- Marissa McCarthyTampa$94K
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.