RxDoctor Payments Data

Melania Velasquez, PA

Physician Assistant · Augusta, GANPI 1770917833

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,807in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 306 payments — averaging $32.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Axonics, Inc.$4K
  • Medtronic$3K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$716
  • Boston Scientific$348
  • Urovant Sciences Inc$219
  • plus $580 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,65327%
  • Food & beverage$7,02772%
  • Education$1271%

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.

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

$9,807 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$76,847
Medicare patients
325
Services billed
3,900

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
GemtesaVibegron186$128,164
MyrbetriqMirabegron175$125,615
Estradiol311$19,996
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated14$6,625
EstringEstradiol11$5,919
Mirabegron ErMirabegron11$3,973
Fosfomycin Tromethamine12$2,111
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst155$1,955
YuvafemEstradiol12$1,407
Cephalexin109$850
Nystatin34$517
Clobetasol Propionate24$428
Trospium Chloride15$402
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim80$234
Fluconazole35$140

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
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$179$128,164186 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$716$125,615175 claims
PfizerPremarin, Estring$188$12,54425 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 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.

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