Nicholas Giordano, MD
Pain Medicine · Melbourne, FLNPI 1336482694
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 348 payments — averaging $68.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$15K
- Vertiflex, Inc.$3K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$759
- Curonix LLC$249
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,16326%
- Travel & lodging$3,00813%
- Food & beverage$14,10459%
- Education$5492%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 174 | $14,835 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 32 | $2,689 |
| Boston Scientific | 48 | $2,639 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 23 | $1,617 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $759 |
| Curonix LLC | 10 | $249 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 2 | $228 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 3 | $226 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $219 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $71 |
| Stryker | 2 | $49 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $41 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$8,527
- Superion ISS$1,861
- mild Device Kit$1,097
- Proclaim IPG$770
- ETERNA$646
- Intracept$425
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$329
- Eon Family of SCS IPGs$245
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$241
- INTELLIS$158
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$149
- MYSTIM$145
- S-Series SCS Leads$140
- CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$121
- DURATA$120
- SUPERION$117
- SYNCHROMED$114
How this compares
$23,823 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 | 1,162 | $44,652 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 1,168 | $29,021 |
| Pregabalin | 1,158 | $15,715 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 170 | $11,092 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 13 | $7,615 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 345 | $5,748 |
| Buprenorphine | 30 | $5,073 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 449 | $3,937 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 162 | $3,651 |
| Fentanyl | 17 | $3,079 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 281 | $2,686 |
| Gabapentin | 211 | $2,443 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 154 | $2,406 |
| Cephalexin | 17 | $1,736 |
| Methocarbamol | 92 | $1,084 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Melbourne
- Rohan SarnaMelbourne$29K
- Lee NeubertMelbourne$19K
- Jeffrey GudinMiami$356K
- Joseph PergolizziNaples$333K
- Ramon Cuevas-TrisanRiviera Beach$220K
- Navdeep JassalLakeland$163K
- Mark-Friedrich HurdleJacksonville$140K
- Rodolfo GariTampa$120K
- Stephen PylesOcala$115K
- Orlando FloreteJacksonville$86K
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.