Ricardo Gomez-Vasquez, MD
Family Medicine · Newark, NJNPI 1801053715
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 215 payments — averaging $27.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$2K
- GSK$2K
- Amgen$700
- Novo Nordisk$577
- Lilly USA, LLC$297
- Boehringer Ingelheim$294
- plus $641 from 14 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $125.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Indivior Inc.$125
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,842100%
- Education$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 41 | $1,693 |
| GSK | 50 | $1,644 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 19 | $700 |
| Novo Nordisk | 26 | $577 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $297 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $294 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $124 |
| Indivior Inc. | 9 | $120 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $87 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $60 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $60 |
| Orexo US, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Bayer | 2 | $29 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Althera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$5,846 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,084 family medicine providers in New Jersey.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 190 | $216,852 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 65 | $81,731 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 111 | $80,565 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 32 | $70,490 |
| EliquisApixaban | 70 | $67,288 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 93 | $60,801 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 51 | $54,130 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 31 | $41,564 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 55 | $38,458 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 33 | $36,858 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 12 | $20,374 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 30 | $19,343 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 11 | $18,776 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 55 | $11,897 |
| Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide | 15 | $9,788 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Spiriva Respimat | $294 | $276,771253 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arexvy, Shingrix | $1,644 | $88,787203 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $1,693 | $87,39481 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $297 | $70,49032 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $87 | $67,28870 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $577 | $41,56431 claims |
| AmgenProlia | $700 | $18,77611 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 90th percentile of 2,084 family medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other family medicine in Newark
- Howard HassmanClementon$47.1M
- Matthew HongNorth Cape May$15.3M
- Rubaba HussainClark$3.8M
- Gaurang BrahmbhattHoboken$2.6M
- Michael DobrowClifton$2.1M
- Mikhail VarshavskiChatham$1.4M
- Amit BhalodiaCamden$707K
- Jennifer AmicoNew Brunswick$627K
- Janet ColeFar Hills$466K
- Matthew PintoMarlton$239K
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.