Mario Paese, DO
Interventional Pain Medicine · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1609436567
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,641 of the $3,403 with a category attached, or 77.6%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Simplicity, LLC at 51.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,845 and has fallen 53.0% since, to $867 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $4,625.
Across 63 payments — averaging $54.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$224
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$198
- Boston Scientific$192
- Medtronic$184
- Curonix LLC$165
- plus $674 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76222%
- Food & beverage$2,64178%
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 | 21 | $1,766 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 5 | $224 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $198 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $192 |
| Medtronic | 14 | $184 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $165 |
| VB Spine LLC | 1 | $164 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Amgen | 3 | $46 |
| Alvogen Inc | 2 | $41 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,403 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 35 | $995 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $414 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $359 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 32 | $264 |
| Gabapentin | 12 | $149 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $62 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Fort Lauderdale
- Neel AminFort Lauderdale$17K
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.3M
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.1M
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$777K
- Nomen AzeemRiverview$650K
- Stanley GolovacMerritt Island$367K
- Sunil PanchalLutz$363K
- Robert BallPort Charlotte$246K
- Justin MannJacksonville$243K
- Giuseppe PaeseBoca Raton$180K
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.