Arma Velasquez
Podiatrist · El Paso, TXNPI 1285632562
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 197 payments — averaging $64.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$5K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
- Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc.$636
- Progenacare Global, LLC$584
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1371%
- Travel & lodging$5,10840%
- Food & beverage$7,51459%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 50 | $5,336 |
| Smith+Nephew | 77 | $1,620 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,160 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 6 | $1,090 |
| Nvision Biomedical Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $636 |
| Progenacare Global, LLC | 6 | $584 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 12 | $360 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $219 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $194 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 2 | $190 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $187 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $184 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $170 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 2 | $111 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Reapplix Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $28 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$1,231
- MOTOBAND$1,045
- Portfolio$997
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$788
- Lapiplasty System$742
- Lapiplasty$680
- Training Lab$610
- PICO$224
- ORTHOLOC$165
- CellerateRx$152
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$141
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$141
- PRIMATRIX$141
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$141
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$141
- Apligraf$125
- Dermagraft$125
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$125
- KERRACONTACT AG (US)$122
- DALVANCE$121
How this compares
$12,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 470 podiatrist providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 28 | $16,012 |
| CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine | 357 | $13,487 |
| Ciclopirox | 356 | $12,806 |
| Ketoconazole | 189 | $3,457 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 196 | $3,442 |
| Clotrimazole | 103 | $2,520 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 56 | $1,908 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 159 | $1,198 |
| Methylprednisolone | 88 | $703 |
| Gabapentin | 35 | $449 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 39 | $399 |
| Cephalexin | 24 | $202 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 13 | $146 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 21 | $141 |
| Levofloxacin | 17 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $1,620 | $16,01228 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 470 podiatrist providers in Texas.
Other podiatrist in El Paso
- Brian CarpenterFort Worth$1.2M
- Gary LepowHouston$1M
- Travis MotleyFort Worth$888K
- Wayne HurstCedar Park$625K
- Calvin RushingSunnyvale$462K
- Lena LevineFort Worth$298K
- Robert TaylorFrisco$280K
- Alan GarrettFort Worth$236K
- Patrick BriggsWebster$236K
- Anna SanchezSan Antonio$219K
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.