Louis Valente
Interventional Pain Medicine · Port Charlotte, FLNPI 1831269752
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,226 of the $2,891 with a category attached, or 77.0%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 35.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,393 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $22 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $4,625.
Across 90 payments — averaging $32.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$510
- AbbVie$322
- Nevro Corp.$276
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$265
- VGI Medical, LLC$107
- plus $376 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$66523%
- Food & beverage$2,22677%
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 | 18 | $1,036 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 12 | $510 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 19 | $322 |
| Nevro Corp. | 9 | $276 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 10 | $265 |
| VGI Medical, LLC | 1 | $107 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $104 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 2 | $53 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $226 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Port Charlotte
- Robert BallPort Charlotte$246K
- Lee JamesPort Charlotte$40K
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.3M
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.1M
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$777K
- Nomen AzeemRiverview$650K
- Stanley GolovacMerritt Island$367K
- Sunil PanchalLutz$363K
- Justin MannJacksonville$243K
- Giuseppe PaeseBoca Raton$180K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.