Mark Valente
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Plano, TXNPI 1194930453
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $254,521 of the $410,548 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Evolution Spine, LLC accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 222 payments — averaging $1849.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Evolution Spine, LLC$402K
- AbbVie$5K
- Merz North America, Inc.$707
- Medtronic$544
- 4web, Inc.$341
- Johnson & Johnson$309
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$254,52162%
- Consulting fees$142,60035%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,5721%
- Travel & lodging$4,5341%
- Food & beverage$4,3201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Evolution Spine, LLC | 94 | $402,050 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 69 | $5,335 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 6 | $707 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $544 |
| 4web, Inc. | 7 | $341 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $309 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 4 | $298 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $193 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $192 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $150 |
| Abbott | 2 | $131 |
| Amgen | 5 | $95 |
| Spineology Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Stryker | 2 | $44 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $23 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Wenzel Spine, 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.
- Whistler Modular Screw System and Lumbar and Cervical Plates and Cages$253,875
- Integrated ALIF System$93,183
- Whistler Modular Screw System$59,461
- Whistler Pedicle Screw System$54,928
- Skye Cervical Plates and Cages$47,705
- Intracept$211
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$168
- Spine & Trauma 3D Navigation$147
- BOTOX$142
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$123
- PROCLAIM$102
How this compares
$410,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 22 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Plano
- Michael ObrienPlano$1M
- Scott BlumenthalPlano$833K
- Richard GuyerPlano$758K
- Ralph RashbaumPlano$616K
- Jessica ShellockPlano$264K
- Anthony OwusuPlano$149K
- Kendall CarllPlano$138K
- Alexander SatinPlano$83K
- Renato BositaPlano$51K
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.