Eliezer Soto, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Vero Beach, FLNPI 1598950990
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,422 of the $10,688 with a category attached, or 69.4%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Curonix LLC at 31.4% of the total.
Across 205 payments — averaging $52.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Curonix LLC$3K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$1K
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$691
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$661
- Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC$390
- plus $2K from 20 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $2991.13 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Avanos Medical$55K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$8K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,83927%
- Food & beverage$7,42269%
- Education$3984%
- Entertainment$300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Curonix LLC | 28 | $3,356 |
| Boston Scientific | 66 | $2,727 |
| Abbott | 27 | $1,248 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 5 | $691 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 7 | $661 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 5 | $390 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $251 |
| Amgen | 7 | $239 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $190 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $159 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $106 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $79 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $73 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $33 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
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
$10,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 278 interventional 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 179 | $4,962 |
| Pregabalin | 193 | $4,290 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 172 | $4,245 |
| Gabapentin | 125 | $1,630 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 184 | $1,553 |
| Buprenorphine | 11 | $1,442 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $910 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 64 | $822 |
| Chlorzoxazone | 19 | $653 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $530 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 48 | $502 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 37 | $425 |
| Baclofen | 31 | $424 |
| Celecoxib | 14 | $411 |
| Levofloxacin | 68 | $370 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Vero Beach
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$777K
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.3M
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.1M
- Nomen AzeemRiverview$650K
- Stanley GolovacMerritt Island$367K
- Sunil PanchalLutz$363K
- Robert BallPort Charlotte$246K
- Justin MannJacksonville$243K
- Giuseppe PaeseBoca Raton$180K
- Miguel de la GarzaNew Port Richey$138K
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.