Raul Vazquez
Family Medicine · Buffalo, NYNPI 1861440711
Payments from drug & device makers
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.
- Impella$173
- FLEXITOUCH$137
- ACTITOUCH$137
- ENTRE$137
- XARELTO$134
- INVOKANA$134
- Prolastin-C$125
- Assure WCD$108
- Azure$100
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.
Other family medicine in Buffalo
- Martin MahoneyBuffalo$640K
- Ryan BoweBuffalo$200K
- Chester FoxBuffalo$42K
- Matthew DavisRochester$76.6M
- Frank EderBinghamton$46.2M
- Suchet PatelEndwell$23.3M
- James WildGowanda$2.2M
- Michael FedericoEndwell$1.4M
- Donald BrautigamWestfield$1.3M
- Kimberly DesantisEndwell$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.