Question 1

Has Angela Velasco received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,807 in general payments to Angela Velasco across 610 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Angela Velasco did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Angela Velasco come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
AbbVie	121	$2,246
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	99	$1,781
Biogen	42	$927
AstraZeneca	19	$633
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	36	$600
UCB, Inc.	17	$516
Lilly USA, LLC	21	$461
Pfizer	28	$387
EMD Serono, Inc.	10	$369
Eisai Inc.	14	$359
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	19	$297
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	13	$296
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	17	$283
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	16	$269
Genentech USA, Inc.	7	$257
Lundbeck LLC	7	$236
Argenx US, Inc.	7	$231
Novartis	10	$213
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	11	$208
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$193
Sanofi	5	$185
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	7	$151
Amgen(2 entities)	4	$148
Bristol Myers Squibb	7	$140
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$138
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	6	$130
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	7	$126
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$106
Averitas Pharma Inc.	4	$101
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$94
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$88
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$60
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$59
Corium, LLC	4	$50
Grifols USA, LLC	3	$45
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$43
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$39
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$39
GE HealthCare	2	$39
GRT US Holding, Inc.	3	$37
Microtransponder, Inc.	1	$34
Avion Pharmaceuticals	2	$31
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	2	$30
CSL Behring	1	$29
Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc	1	$26
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$18
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$17
C2n Diagnostics, LLC	1	$15
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14

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