Stanley Golovac
Interventional Pain Medicine · Merritt Island, FLNPI 1063420610
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.0%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vertos Medical, Inc. accounts for 79.6% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $149,983 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $8,812 in 2025. Among interventional pain medicine clinicians in FL 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 371 payments — averaging $987.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$292K
- Abbott$43K
- Medtronic$13K
- Stryker$12K
- Epimed International, Inc$5K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- plus $2K from 7 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $484.73 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.
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$8K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$253
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4,6301%
- Consulting fees$197,88854%
- Speaking & faculty fees$108,63830%
- Travel & lodging$44,07612%
- Food & beverage$11,2983%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 201 | $291,651 |
| Abbott | 98 | $42,882 |
| Medtronic | 17 | $12,581 |
| Stryker | 25 | $11,850 |
| Epimed International, Inc | 12 | $4,630 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $1,147 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $1,104 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $242 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $117 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $69 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $56 |
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$297,840
- PROCLAIM$16,990
- Accurian$12,140
- Neuromodulation Dspsbls and Accs$10,107
- Protege Family of SCS IPGs$6,098
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$5,842
- Catheters and Needles$3,278
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,147
- Needle$914
- Axium$710
- Cardiovascular- Research only$468
- Needles (needmarketed name of devices)$334
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$325
- Proclaim IPG$261
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$252
- SUPERION$245
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$125
- INCEPTIV$120
- Eon Family of SCS IPGs$120
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$117
How this compares
$366,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.
Other interventional pain medicine in Merritt Island
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.3M
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.1M
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$777K
- Nomen AzeemRiverview$650K
- Sunil PanchalLutz$363K
- Robert BallPort Charlotte$246K
- Justin MannJacksonville$243K
- Giuseppe PaeseBoca Raton$180K
- Miguel de la GarzaNew Port Richey$138K
- Andrea TrescotEast Palatka$97K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.