Maulik Bhalani, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Wesley Chapel, FLNPI 1336331008
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $12,562 of the $20,401 with a category attached, or 61.6%. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 52.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,702 and has fallen 73.4% since, to $2,053 in 2025.
Across 295 payments — averaging $69.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$11K
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$562
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$472
- Nevro Corp.$440
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,40017%
- Travel & lodging$4,37121%
- Food & beverage$12,56262%
- Education$460%
- Entertainment$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 84 | $10,616 |
| Abbott | 54 | $3,436 |
| Boston Scientific | 51 | $2,495 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 9 | $562 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 8 | $472 |
| Nevro Corp. | 16 | $440 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 4 | $281 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $269 |
| Amgen | 6 | $219 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $194 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $160 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 6 | $126 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $125 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $102 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Nutech Spine, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Novartis | 5 | $94 |
| Captiva Spine Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $80 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $37 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $30 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 4 | $26 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Camber Spine Technologies LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, 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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$7,071
- PROCLAIM$1,861
- Intracept$1,413
- INTELLIS$1,225
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$499
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$308
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$299
- AJOVY$238
- CFNS StimQ Peripheral Nerve StimulatorSystem$189
- SCS FreedonSpinal Cord Stimulator$189
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$175
- SPRINT PNS System$160
- Intracept RF Probe$144
- RELISTOR$125
- AIMOVIG$119
- PAINTEQ$111
How this compares
$20,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 | 421 | $11,244 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 381 | $9,227 |
| Fentanyl | 68 | $8,439 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 193 | $5,053 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 141 | $3,689 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 106 | $1,693 |
| Pregabalin | 54 | $1,511 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 45 | $1,038 |
| Gabapentin | 16 | $470 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 18 | $305 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 15 | $301 |
| Diazepam | 17 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Wesley Chapel
- Edgar RamirezWesley Chapel$15K
- 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.