Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Vincent Valdez

Pain Medicine Downey, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1588633762 CMS profile 26704

8067 Florence Ave, Downey, CA 90240

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General payments

$8,936

405 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Vincent Valdez of Downey, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,936 across 405 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 79th percentile of Pain Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,207 35
2024 General $1,346 82
2023 General $2,068 95
2022 General $1,114 47
2021 General $542 35
2020 General $936 51
2019 General $1,723 60

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Vincent Valdez
  • Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Vincent Valdez were reported at $1,207. Among 757 Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $470 and the middle half received between $146 and $1,462.

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Year Vincent Valdez Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $1,723 $506 $144–$1,566 $163
2020 $936 $315 $96–$934 $114
2021 $542 $452 $134–$1,237 $132
2022 $1,114 $475 $124–$1,407 $149
2023 $2,068 $480 $136–$1,384 $160
2024 $1,346 $521 $164–$1,511 $164
2025 $1,207 $470 $146–$1,462 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $3,261 122 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,578 82 payments
  3. Vertiflex, Inc. $1,121 18 payments
  4. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $642 58 payments
  5. Medtronic USA, Inc. $369 24 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $233 15 payments
  7. RedHill Biopharma Inc. $216 13 payments
  8. Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. $205 18 payments
  9. Zynex Medical, Inc. $173 1 payment
  10. Vertos Medical, Inc. $138 3 payments
  11. Other $1,001 51 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $8,221 402 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $716 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM $2,822 105 payments
  2. Superion ISS $1,121 18 payments
  3. RELISTOR $501 50 payments
  4. WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16 $305 18 payments
  5. SUPERION Pain Management $238 10 payments
  6. General - Pain Management $232 11 payments
  7. Movantik $216 13 payments
  8. Levorphanol Tartrate $205 18 payments
  9. Superion Indirect Decompression System $188 14 payments
  10. Superion Pain Management $186 9 payments
  11. Other $2,664 134 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 39 drugs

Part D claims

2,763

Median for Pain Management: 951

Drug cost

$154,301

Median for Pain Management: $26,034

Branded share of claims

33.7%

Median for Pain Management: 29.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Percocet Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 12 $46,571
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 255 $36,515
Lidocaine Generic 68 $11,800
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 30 $11,295
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 449 $10,719
Diclofenac Sodium Generic 78 $6,295
Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl Brand 13 $6,142
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 156 $4,916
Gabapentin Generic 433 $4,760
Morphine Sulfate Er Morphine Sulfate Brand 125 $3,928

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 39 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,732 Part D prescribers listed as Pain Management; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 60 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$335,734

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

517

Average age 72

Services billed

3,421

310 women, 207 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Arthritis 75%
High blood pressure 74%
Diabetes 42%
Depression 31%
Chronic kidney disease 26%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
COPD 20%
Heart failure 19%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 6 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
RELISTOR
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $339
$339 — —
XIFAXAN
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $46
$46 — —
PROLATE
  • Forte Bio-Pharma LLC $27
$27 — —
ZTLido
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. $24
$24 — —
ARESTIN
  • OraPharma, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $17
$17 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

405 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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