Rolando Velazquez
Medical · McAllen, TXNPI 1417166612
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 773 payments — averaging $16.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$2K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Lilly USA, LLC$1K
- Dexcom, Inc.$846
- Bayer$813
- Amgen$730
- plus $5K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,88899%
- Education$1341%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 131 | $2,145 |
| AstraZeneca | 84 | $1,893 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 89 | $1,175 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 52 | $846 |
| Bayer | 42 | $813 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 55 | $730 |
| Merck | 32 | $595 |
| GSK | 31 | $570 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 36 | $567 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 33 | $537 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 30 | $513 |
| AbbVie | 35 | $420 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 32 | $410 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $281 |
| Novartis | 11 | $230 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $188 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 5 | $129 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $112 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $109 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 4 | $98 |
| Abbott | 5 | $91 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $66 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $40 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Intuity Medical Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $13 |
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
$13,021 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,490 medical providers in Texas.
Other medical in McAllen
- Jason HenslerMcAllen$66K
- Edgar GarciaMcAllen$17K
- Claudia MaldonadoMcAllen$15K
- Jose de la CerdaSan Antonio$1.1M
- Mark DavisFort Worth$1M
- Joey Dixon-JulianBoerne$458K
- Terry FaleyeKingwood$243K
- Kimberly PoarchDallas$166K
- Erin DuhaimeDallas$150K
- Courtney AldridgeSan Antonio$129K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.