Philip Velez, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1407381262
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,764 of the $4,042 with a category attached, or 68.4%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.5%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,616 and has fallen 85.4% since, to $235 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $4,042.
Across 46 payments — averaging $87.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inari Medical, Inc.$748
- Boston Scientific$709
- Cook Medical LLC$540
- Medtronic$470
- Penumbra, Inc.$425
- Cook Incorporated$408
- plus $742 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$83621%
- Food & beverage$2,76468%
- Education$44111%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 8 | $748 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $709 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $540 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $470 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 3 | $425 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $408 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $313 |
| Abbott | 1 | $152 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 2 | $85 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $78 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
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
$4,042 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 81 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Missouri.
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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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in Saint Louis
- Thomas VeselySaint Louis$852K
- Labib HaddadSaint Louis$643K
- Guillermo Gonzalez-AraizaSaint Louis$384K
- Pavan KavaliSaint Louis$90K
- Michael DarcySaint Louis$87K
- Steven SaukSaint Louis$68K
- Kurtis MauerSaint Louis$59K
- Suchit PatelSaint Louis$54K
- John KarageorgiouSaint Louis$44K
- Andrew WarrenSaint Louis$33K
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.