Jose Villarreal, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · El Paso, TXNPI 1548231848
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 564 payments — averaging $46.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Boston Scientific$7K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$2K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- Nevro Corp.$1K
- MML US, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1250%
- Travel & lodging$5,19220%
- Food & beverage$21,13880%
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 | 230 | $8,029 |
| Boston Scientific | 100 | $6,653 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 30 | $2,091 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 14 | $1,584 |
| Nevro Corp. | 29 | $1,469 |
| MML US, Inc. | 14 | $1,274 |
| Globus Medical | 16 | $1,007 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 7 | $819 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 10 | $737 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $450 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 4 | $317 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 12 | $258 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 19 | $248 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 14 | $236 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 6 | $201 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $166 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $153 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $131 |
| Vertex | 2 | $84 |
| Merck | 5 | $77 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $50 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Amgen | 1 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| Stryker | 2 | $34 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Bayer | 1 | $24 |
| Tonix Medicines, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Intracept$5,483
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$1,800
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$1,784
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,333
- SUPERION$1,289
- Proclaim IPG$1,240
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$1,141
- Senza$1,131
- ReActiv8$1,027
- PROCLAIM$950
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$676
- Axium INS DRG IPG$574
- SPRINT PNS System$521
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$289
- Evoke$260
- Axium$137
- OCTRODE$134
- NT1100 NT2000iX Simplicity$132
- ASCENDA$126
- QUVIVIQ$125
How this compares
$26,455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 287 interventional pain medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 77 | $57,994 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,656 | $45,565 |
| Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl | 29 | $38,652 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 48 | $34,577 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 57 | $29,796 |
| NucyntaTapentadol Hcl | 22 | $18,913 |
| Diclofenac Epolamine | 13 | $12,958 |
| Buprenorphine | 60 | $11,354 |
| Pregabalin | 289 | $9,793 |
| Fentanyl | 78 | $9,575 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 270 | $9,056 |
| Gabapentin | 328 | $6,390 |
| Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl | 128 | $6,338 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 380 | $5,362 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 185 | $5,216 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in El Paso
- Carlos ViescaEl Paso$40K
- Gabor RaczLubbock$3M
- Pankaj MehtaKilleen$2.2M
- Genaro GutierrezAustin$1.3M
- Chad StephensSouthlake$1.1M
- Ioannis SkaribasHouston$979K
- Duane GriffithTyler$730K
- Brannon FrankAustin$698K
- Robert WillsRound Rock$692K
- Ankur KhoslaShenandoah$511K
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.