Juan Velazquez, DO
Family Medicine · Cordele, GANPI 1891068227
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 32 payments — averaging $23.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$333
- Abbott$150
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$77
- AstraZeneca$37
- AbbVie$35
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$26
- plus $106 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$764100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 13 | $333 |
| Abbott | 4 | $150 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $77 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $35 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$764 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 3,111 family medicine providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 16 | $14,227 |
| Gabapentin | 40 | $638 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 38 | $615 |
| Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride | 31 | $490 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 18 | $382 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 64 | $317 |
| Pregabalin | 19 | $300 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 58 | $265 |
| Famotidine | 24 | $249 |
| Omeprazole | 16 | $242 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 48 | $216 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 26 | $203 |
| Potassium Chloride | 17 | $154 |
| Lisinopril | 19 | $152 |
| Losartan Potassium | 30 | $129 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Cordele
- Joseph SurberColumbus$16.6M
- Angela RitterGainesville$15.8M
- Jeffrey KingsleyColumbus$8.1M
- Christopher OldfieldSavannah$6.4M
- Darrell MurrayAtlanta$3.9M
- Ben ThomasAtlanta$3.2M
- Debbie HaginsSavannah$2.1M
- Aziz PiraniLilburn$2.1M
- Nadia CameronAtlanta$2.1M
- John LentzSnellville$1M
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.