RxDoctor Payments Data

Jose Velasco, MD

Family Medicine · Kingsport, TNNPI 1861496390

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,702in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 244 payments — averaging $15.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$866
  • Novo Nordisk$573
  • GSK$441
  • Dexcom, Inc.$393
  • Lilly USA, LLC$254
  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$121
  • plus $1K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,702100%

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

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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.

How this compares

$3,702 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,492
Medicare patients
26
Services billed
61

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
MounjaroTirzepatide59$75,110
EliquisApixaban86$65,673
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol58$38,293
OzempicSemaglutide28$26,888
UbrelvyUbrogepant14$22,751
XareltoRivaroxaban20$20,153
JardianceEmpagliflozin31$19,594
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter22$16,075
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$15,916
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate12$15,821
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$13,757
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr22$10,685
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$7,997
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$7,608
Carvedilol ErCarvedilol Phosphate13$4,981

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$254$75,11059 claims
PfizerEliquis$95$65,67386 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat$13$35,41643 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$441$31,00355 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$573$26,88828 claims
AbbVieUbrelvy$866$22,75114 claims
MerckJanuvia$58$13,75718 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 75th percentile of 2,087 family medicine providers in Tennessee.

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