Juan Aponte, MD
Internal Medicine · Lynchburg, VANPI 1376526947
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 539 payments — averaging $17.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$4K
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- AbbVie$723
- Abbott$598
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$426
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$261
- plus $1K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,80039%
- Travel & lodging$2473%
- Food & beverage$5,26855%
- Education$3343%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 54 | $4,457 |
| Novo Nordisk | 217 | $1,767 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 78 | $723 |
| Abbott | 48 | $598 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 27 | $426 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 24 | $261 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 24 | $204 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 7 | $132 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Insightec,inc | 1 | $111 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $106 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Bayer | 3 | $59 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $54 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $52 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Amgen | 3 | $45 |
| Novartis | 2 | $38 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Biogen | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $4 |
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.
How this compares
$9,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 144 | $279,131 |
| EliquisApixaban | 143 | $174,423 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 133 | $165,259 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 81 | $116,825 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 11 | $80,880 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 37 | $50,605 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 42 | $47,797 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 45 | $43,079 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 35 | $30,260 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 23 | $29,988 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 24 | $28,739 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 18 | $23,996 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 21 | $23,407 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 30 | $22,810 |
| Fiasp FlextouchInsulin Aspart (Niacinamide) | 16 | $21,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $1,767 | $303,127162 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $204 | $215,864170 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $4,457 | $174,423143 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Farxiga | $21 | $71,81869 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $106 | $47,79742 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $14 | $28,95235 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $426 | $22,81030 claims |
| AbbVieCreon, Synthroid | $723 | $21,793126 claims |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan | $17 | $3,759179 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 95th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Lynchburg
- Joseph SaabiyeLynchburg$124K
- Daniel HortonLynchburg$42K
- Leroy VaughanRichmond$20.8M
- James ClarkCharlottesville$16.2M
- Nabil AndrawisBurke$8.5M
- Mary BlumbergNorfolk$6.5M
- David RamstadSuffolk$5.8M
- Andrew PoklepovicRichmond$4.6M
- Nashwa GabraBurke$4.3M
- Michael DevittCharlottesville$3.5M
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.