Joseph Alshon, DO
Interventional Pain Medicine · Boca Raton, FLNPI 1326010737
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 302 payments — averaging $30.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$1K
- Painteq LLC$1K
- Medtronic$859
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$843
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$758
- plus $3K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,59818%
- Food & beverage$6,57672%
- Education$92310%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 22 | $1,331 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 25 | $1,314 |
| Painteq LLC | 4 | $1,302 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $859 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 51 | $843 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 50 | $758 |
| Curonix LLC | 7 | $442 |
| Abbott | 4 | $322 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 15 | $252 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 6 | $242 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 10 | $238 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 40 | $234 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $189 |
| Stryker | 1 | $150 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $81 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $80 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 2 | $54 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $41 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 3 | $40 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $35 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $32 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $12 |
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
$9,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 51 | $31,477 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 20 | $20,503 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 546 | $19,207 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 28 | $17,173 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 377 | $9,161 |
| Pregabalin | 218 | $8,545 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 13 | $5,279 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 249 | $5,163 |
| Gabapentin | 417 | $4,415 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 233 | $3,845 |
| Fentanyl | 36 | $3,485 |
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 16 | $2,567 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 95 | $2,173 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 27 | $1,878 |
| Baclofen | 154 | $1,875 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Xtampza Er, Belbuca | $843 | $48,64979 claims |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik | $21 | $5,27913 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USABuprenorphine-Naloxone, Morphine Sulfate | $40 | $3,70454 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.
Other interventional pain medicine in Boca Raton
- Giuseppe PaeseBoca Raton$222K
- Shatabdi PatelBoca Raton$43K
- Ahmet OzaktayBoca Raton$25K
- 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
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.