Emilio Suarez
Interventional Pain Medicine · Miami, FLNPI 1043245749
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 320 payments — averaging $31.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Amgen$1K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$1K
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$470
- Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.$425
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$414
- plus $3K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,92319%
- Food & beverage$8,01081%
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 | 58 | $3,043 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 51 | $1,383 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 10 | $1,252 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 21 | $470 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 21 | $425 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 28 | $414 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $357 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $335 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $267 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $239 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $209 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 12 | $205 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 5 | $137 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 8 | $126 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 8 | $112 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $106 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| Novartis | 4 | $75 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $69 |
| Biogen | 4 | $69 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $68 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $48 |
| Osprey Medical Inc | 1 | $47 |
| Abbott | 3 | $42 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $37 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $34 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$1,309
- Superion ISS$1,049
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$254
- AIMOVIG$226
- Nalocet$194
- Prolate$194
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$145
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$127
- BELBUCA$125
- Intracept$118
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$106
How this compares
$9,933 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 12 | $6,631 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 27 | $61 |
| Meloxicam | 42 | $60 |
| Alcohol Prep PadsAlcohol Antiseptic Pads | 11 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Miami
- Dennis PatinMiami$91K
- Javier VilasusoMiami$51K
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.9M
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.6M
- Gilbert MbeoOrlando$1.4M
- George BesongOrange City$1.2M
- Gary KaoMiddleburg$1.1M
- Neil EllisTampa$1.1M
- Alexis RentaBoynton Beach$1.1M
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.