Mark Bender, MD
Pain Medicine · Gainesville, FLNPI 1659603090
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $163.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$10K
- Medtronic$963
- Abbott$411
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$230
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$159
- Nevro Corp.$109
- plus $348 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$5,00041%
- Travel & lodging$3,80131%
- Food & beverage$3,43628%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 36 | $10,018 |
| Medtronic | 18 | $963 |
| Abbott | 5 | $411 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $230 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $109 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $69 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $67 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $28 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 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.
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$5,000
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$3,238
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$447
- PROCLAIM$367
- Intracept$276
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$268
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$186
- Iovera$176
- Evoke$159
- SYNCHROMEDII$125
How this compares
$12,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 596 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 | 587 | $21,494 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 742 | $16,816 |
| Pregabalin | 90 | $1,946 |
| Lidocaine | 20 | $1,623 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 69 | $1,600 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 74 | $1,351 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 194 | $1,302 |
| Gabapentin | 90 | $1,255 |
| Celecoxib | 40 | $794 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 57 | $683 |
| Methocarbamol | 21 | $320 |
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 14 | $302 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 37 | $186 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 33 | $172 |
| Baclofen | 14 | $126 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Gainesville
- Juan Camilo Mora HerreraGainesville$44K
- Timothy FeldheimGainesville$29K
- Anand PatelOrmond Beach$20.4M
- Julio PaezClermont$2.3M
- Joseph PergolizziNaples$2.1M
- Abel MurilloMiami$1.6M
- George MonluxPalm Coast$1.3M
- Ferdinand FormosoJacksonville$1M
- Cesar LassalleOrlando$1M
- Robert GuirguisTampa$895K
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.