Vance Elshire
Interventional Pain Medicine · Gainesville, FLNPI 1497769640
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 246 payments — averaging $29.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Nevro Corp.$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Painteq LLC$485
- Nutech Spine, Inc.$402
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$312
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$283
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,146100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevro Corp. | 125 | $3,471 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 39 | $1,027 |
| Painteq LLC | 6 | $485 |
| Nutech Spine, Inc. | 1 | $402 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 15 | $312 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 18 | $283 |
| Abbott | 5 | $281 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $209 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $183 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 6 | $174 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $34 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vertiflex, 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.
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$755
- INTELLIS$464
- PAINTEQ$378
- Omnia$365
- mild Device Kit$114
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$114
- PROCLAIM$107
How this compares
$7,146 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.
Other interventional pain medicine in Gainesville
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.9M
- Jesse LipnickGainesville$38K
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.6M
- Gilbert MbeoOrlando$1.4M
- George BesongOrange City$1.2M
- Gary KaoMiddleburg$1.1M
- Neil EllisTampa$1.1M
- Alexis RentaBoynton Beach$1.1M
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$1M
- Jose RiveraTampa$993K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.