Ana del Carmen Vaquer Alicea, MD
Neurology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1437678158
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,843 of the $3,049 with a category attached, or 60.4%. Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 69.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,502 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $493 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $49.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$515
- UCB, Inc.$100
- Lilly USA, LLC$85
- Lundbeck LLC$29
- Biogen$28
- plus $183 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20640%
- Food & beverage$1,84360%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 17 | $2,108 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $515 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $100 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $85 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Biogen | 1 | $28 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Inspire$1,751
How this compares
$3,049 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 381 neurology providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 16 | $213 |
| Propranolol Hcl | 12 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurology in Saint Louis
- Barry SingerSaint Louis$1.9M
- Mark TullmanSaint Louis$1.5M
- Robert NaismithSaint Louis$677K
- Arun VaradhacharySaint Louis$273K
- Anne CrossSaint Louis$190K
- David HoltzmanSaint Louis$165K
- Ghazala HayatSaint Louis$155K
- Pratap ChandSaint Louis$139K
- Lee TempelSaint Louis$121K
- Salim ChahinSaint Louis$119K
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.