Valentine Nduku, DO
Neurological Surgery · Fort Pierce, FLNPI 1871770263
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 225 payments — averaging $667.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Republic Spine$63K
- Medtronic$27K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$20K
- Spineart USA Inc$16K
- Innosys Medical Technologies. Inc.$8K
- Stryker$5K
- plus $12K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$62,50042%
- Consulting fees$44,06329%
- Travel & lodging$31,48221%
- Food & beverage$11,8318%
- Entertainment$2560%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Republic Spine | 14 | $62,659 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 63 | $26,877 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 26 | $20,083 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 22 | $15,845 |
| Innosys Medical Technologies. Inc. | 1 | $8,000 |
| Stryker | 38 | $4,900 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $4,157 |
| Corelink, LLC | 17 | $2,811 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $2,574 |
| Spineology Inc. | 3 | $394 |
| Kerecis Limited | 7 | $278 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 1 | $228 |
| Alevio, LLC | 1 | $217 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $190 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $176 |
| C2dx, Inc | 1 | $126 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $93 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lenoss Medical Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$11,914
- INFINITY OCCIPITOCERVICAL UPPER THORACIC SYSTEM$10,594
- Other - Miscellaneous$8,853
- OsseoScrew$8,821
- FLOSEAL$2,176
- TRITANIUM$1,738
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,448
- SERRATO$1,159
- XIA$1,159
- UNID_PASS$1,151
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$907
- Kerecis SurgiClose$593
- LIF$555
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$304
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$286
- ATLANTIS ANTERIOR CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$259
- ACTIFUSE$258
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$254
- SiCure$217
- Kerecis GraftGuide$148
How this compares
$150,131 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 556 neurological surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $237 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $97 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Fort Pierce
- Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
- Ira GoodmanOrlando$10.4M
- Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
- Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
- Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
- Ricardo HanelJacksonville$3.8M
- Brian HohGainesville$3.7M
- Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
- John MainOcala$2.8M
- Michael WangMiami$2.5M
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.