RxDoctor Payments Data

Luis Vasquez, MD

Rheumatology · Tyler, TXNPI 1366417388

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,084in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 148 payments — averaging $20.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$738
  • Amgen$545
  • Novartis$238
  • Johnson & Johnson$200
  • AstraZeneca$194
  • Pfizer$149
  • plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,03899%
  • Education$461%

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

$3,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$267,297
Medicare patients
464
Services billed
17,462

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab42$590,479
RinvoqUpadacitinib18$134,534
BenlystaBelimumab15$84,390
OtezlaApremilast11$53,316
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate270$10,736
SavellaMilnacipran Hcl11$5,539
Celecoxib71$4,171
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium133$2,679
Prednisone404$2,127
Leflunomide55$1,744
Duloxetine Hcl113$1,658
Clobetasol Propionate19$1,115
Tramadol Hcl126$1,114
Gabapentin126$1,091
Sulfasalazine55$906

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
AbbVieRinvoq, Savella$738$140,07229 claims
GSKBenlysta$133$84,39015 claims
AmgenOtezla$545$53,31611 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 40th percentile of 512 rheumatology providers in Texas.

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