Jorge Vazquez
Internal Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1134121957
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 266 payments — averaging $647.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$136K
- Shire North American Group Inc$36K
- Johnson & Johnson$52
- AbbVie$29
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$25
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$15
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,48032%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,96065%
- Travel & lodging$280%
- Food & beverage$1662%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 185 | $136,170 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 76 | $35,837 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $29 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
- GATTEX$7,440
How this compares
$172,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| FamotidineFamotidine/Pf | 70 | $392 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Pittsburgh
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
- Annie ImPittsburgh$1.2M
- Manisha JhambPittsburgh$1.1M
- Enrico NovelliPittsburgh$397K
- Donald MiddletonPittsburgh$258K
- Thomas CurleyPittsburgh$213K
- Sandra SobelPittsburgh$178K
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.