Michael Verdolin, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · la Mesa, CANPI 1477525657
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 36.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $148,725 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $3,789 in 2025. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1,167 payments — averaging $434.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$182K
- Boston Scientific$158K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$109K
- Abbott$36K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$12K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$3K
- plus $7K from 18 others
Across 27 payments — averaging $2080.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Boston Scientific$29K
- Medtronic$14K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$13K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$184,14936%
- Speaking & faculty fees$247,08749%
- Travel & lodging$44,3439%
- Food & beverage$28,5806%
- Education$1,2540%
- Other$1,2700%
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) | 413 | $182,283 |
| Boston Scientific | 234 | $157,701 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 83 | $108,728 |
| Abbott | 269 | $35,517 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 34 | $11,804 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 27 | $3,489 |
| Painteq LLC | 16 | $2,823 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $1,270 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 49 | $1,159 |
| MML US, Inc. | 9 | $631 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $357 |
| Stryker | 2 | $180 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 5 | $176 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $124 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $83 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Piramal Critical Care | 1 | $24 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $22 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 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.
- mild Device Kit$108,125
- INTELLIS$105,303
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$60,370
- RESTORE$32,320
- PROCLAIM$28,313
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$26,517
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$18,871
- SUPERION$18,734
- ADAPTIVESTIM$17,478
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$15,313
- Superion ISS$11,067
- VERIFLEX$9,582
- INFINION$4,250
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$3,276
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$2,948
- PAINTEQ$2,547
- Proclaim Plus SCS with FlexBurst360$1,530
- Durolane$1,270
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$879
- GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$623
How this compares
$506,682 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 188 interventional pain medicine providers in California.
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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.
Other interventional pain medicine in la Mesa
- Tim LeierRancho Mirage$449K
- Jonathan GrossmanVisalia$404K
- Kasra MaasumiRancho Santa Margarita$388K
- Andrew GermanovichRancho Mirage$333K
- David LeeYorba Linda$257K
- Standiford HelmOrange$254K
- Patrick BuchananCamarillo$219K
- Chau VuSanta Rosa$141K
- Phillip LimBuena Park$127K
- Marc LynchChino$114K
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.