Has Raul Vazquez received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,687 in general payments to Raul Vazquez across 97 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Raul Vazquez did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Raul Vazquez come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Raul Vazquez

Family Medicine · Buffalo, NYNPI 1861440711

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 97 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotronik Inc. at 24.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,550 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $24 in 2025.

$3,687in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 97 payments — averaging $38.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biotronik Inc.$894
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$715
Insulet Corporation$617
Abiomed$173
Tactile Systems Technology Inc$137
Grifols USA, LLC$134
plus $1K from 19 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,676100%
Education$110%

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
Biotronik Inc.	12	$894
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	17	$715
Insulet Corporation	18	$617
Abiomed	1	$173
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	1	$137
Grifols USA, LLC	2	$134
Johnson & Johnson	1	$134
Abbott	8	$133
Medtronic	1	$100
AbbVie	5	$91
GSK	6	$85
Amgen	4	$82
AstraZeneca	1	$72
Globus Medical	2	$59
Dexcom, Inc.	3	$39
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$37
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$33
Novo Nordisk	2	$33
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$31
Neuronetics, Inc.	2	$22
Valeritas, Inc.	1	$17
Mannkind Corporation	1	$14
Philips North America LLC	1	$14
Shionogi Inc	1	$11
Indivior Inc.	1	$11

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

$3,687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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