Thalia Lopez
Rheumatology · Coral Gables, FLNPI 1235624842
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 103 payments — averaging $186.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$15K
- Johnson & Johnson$973
- AbbVie$844
- Amgen$352
- UCB, Inc.$338
- AstraZeneca$227
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60815%
- Food & beverage$3,22682%
- Education$1093%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $15,250 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $973 |
| AbbVie | 29 | $844 |
| Amgen | 14 | $352 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $338 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 6 | $227 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $152 |
| Alvogen Inc | 5 | $131 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 5 | $128 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $124 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $118 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $96 |
| Novartis | 3 | $89 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GSK | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
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
$19,193 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.
Other rheumatology in Coral Gables
- Martha Hernandez IllasFort Lauderdale$25M
- Carlos SesinMiami Beach$19M
- Guillermo ValenzuelaPlantation$14.2M
- Marimer Rensoli VelazquezMiami$12.2M
- Robert LevinClearwater$11M
- Jigar ShahMargate$5.6M
- Michael BubbGainesville$3.3M
- Vipul JoshiBrandon$3.1M
- Alvin WellsDestin$2.9M
- Benidecto FernandezHialeah$2.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.