Svetislav Vukelja
Hematology & Oncology · Tyler, TXNPI 1851335442
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 56 payments — averaging $1290.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$60K
- Novartis$9K
- Pfizer$3K
- AbbVie$178
- Johnson & Johnson$122
- Merck$80
- plus $380 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$73090%
- Education$8110%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 11 | $59,932 |
| Novartis | 3 | $8,665 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $2,892 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $178 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $122 |
| Merck | 1 | $80 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $69 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 2 | $42 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $33 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 2 | $32 |
| GSK | 1 | $28 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $10 |
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
$72,249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
Other hematology & oncology in Tyler
- Habte YimerTyler$13.3M
- Elias JabbourHouston$264.1M
- Luhua WangHouston$79.6M
- Courtney DinardoHouston$74M
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$59.4M
- William WierdaHouston$58.7M
- Koji SasakiHouston$39.2M
- Kyriakos PapadopoulosSan Antonio$18.5M
- Loretta NastoupilHouston$18.3M
- Christopher FlowersHouston$17.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.