Juan Valdivia Valdivia, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tampa, FLNPI 1043413412
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $179,069 of the $207,967 with a category attached, or 86.1%. Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. accounts for 63.2% of it on its own, with 52 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $41,499 and has fallen 52.3% since, to $19,791 in 2025. Among neurological surgery 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 207 payments — averaging $1004.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$131K
- Xtant Medical Inc$26K
- Spineart SA$26K
- Spineart USA Inc$16K
- Medtronic$2K
- Spinefrontier, Inc.$805
- plus $5K from 47 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1325.00 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.
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$179,06986%
- Consulting fees$14,9967%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5001%
- Travel & lodging$3,7402%
- Food & beverage$8,6424%
- Education$200%
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.
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.
- FORTILINK-C IBF SYSTEM$131,428
- JULIET LL - HYPERLORDOTIC LATERAL CAGE TI-LIFE$12,640
- PERLA C$10,537
- Romeo 2$7,795
- ROMEO 2 - LONG PRE BENT ROD$2,845
- ROMEO 2 - CROSSLINK$2,554
- Juliet LL$1,500
- CAPSTONE$1,500
- PERLA C - OCCIPITAL FIXATION$1,265
- NanoFuse$730
- MISQUITO$386
- PedFuse$386
- Arena-C HA$386
- InSpan$344
- SIJFuse$344
- FacetFuse$344
- Neo Pedicle Screw System$252
- ANDEXXA$243
- RED 72$166
- MYSPINE$165
How this compares
$207,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 556 neurological surgery 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.
Other neurological surgery in Tampa
- Rohit VasanTampa$1.5M
- Puya AlikhaniTampa$582K
- Steven TresserTampa$388K
- Elias DakwarTampa$348K
- Kunal VakhariaTampa$190K
- Gabriel Gonzales PortilloTampa$150K
- Patrick KimTampa$145K
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
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.