Ricardo Vallejo
Pain Medicine · Bloomington, ILNPI 1669469706
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $1,760,187 of the $2,323,013 with a category attached, or 75.8%. Medtronic accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,869,630 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $24,383 in 2025. Among pain medicine clinicians in IL 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 760 payments — averaging $3056.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2.3M
- Avanos Medical$9K
- Tersera Therapeutics LLC$267
- Nevro Corp.$245
- Abbott$228
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$201
- plus $1K from 22 others
Across 46 payments — averaging $27,095 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.
- Medtronic$1.1M
- Avanos Medical$116K
- Seikagaku Corporation$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$28,2321%
- Speaking & faculty fees$444,51619%
- Travel & lodging$71,0233%
- Food & beverage$17,2611%
- Education$1,7950%
- Other$1,760,18776%
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) | 671 | $2,312,155 |
| Avanos Medical | 4 | $8,516 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 13 | $267 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $245 |
| Abbott | 8 | $228 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 10 | $201 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $163 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $137 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $117 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Novartis | 5 | $69 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Amgen | 2 | $50 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $23 |
| Epimed International, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Si-bone, 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.
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$182,032
- INTELLIS$161,292
- ADAPTIVESTIM$63,153
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$44,542
- SYNCHROMED$25,878
- RESTORE$22,148
- GENERATOR$8,516
- SYNCHROMEDII$4,964
- OPTIMIZER$1,674
- SYNERGY$698
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$630
- Vanta$558
- RESTORESENSORSURESCAN$558
- Accurian$413
- TARGETSTIM$246
- UNID_PASS$179
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$167
- Superion ISS$145
- INTERSTIM$145
- Prometra II$137
How this compares
$2,323,013 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 233 pain medicine providers in Illinois.
Other pain medicine in Bloomington
- David DickersonEvanston$558K
- Thomas DahlbergRockford$218K
- Steven CohenChicago$217K
- Albert SinghQuincy$212K
- Nirav ShahSkokie$137K
- Ryan KutaNaperville$114K
- Anthony LebarioElgin$87K
- Keith SchmidtHoffman Estates$81K
- Jay HurhLibertyville$71K
- Goran TubicBolingbrook$68K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.