Valerie Dennis
Nurse Practitioner · San Antonio, TXNPI 1679148241
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.1%), consulting fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 67.5% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,496, 4.2 times the $592 reported in 2021. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 94 payments — averaging $37.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Amgen$170
- Novartis$149
- AbbVie$149
- Pfizer$113
- Endologix LLC$68
- plus $489 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,54244%
- Food & beverage$1,89954%
- Education$682%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 23 | $2,370 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 13 | $170 |
| Novartis | 5 | $149 |
| AbbVie | 19 | $149 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $113 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $68 |
| GSK | 3 | $63 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $62 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| One Lambda, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Envarsus$1,683
How this compares
$3,509 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,422 nurse practitioner providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 213 | $31,487 |
| Cinacalcet Hcl | 91 | $26,766 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 26 | $20,680 |
| LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | 24 | $16,246 |
| Tacrolimus | 87 | $13,631 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 114 | $13,024 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 12 | $7,519 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 74 | $1,033 |
| Cefdinir | 59 | $933 |
| Bumetanide | 22 | $871 |
| Cefpodoxime Proxetil | 13 | $772 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 210 | $747 |
| Prednisone | 161 | $692 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $674 |
| Carvedilol | 102 | $459 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in San Antonio
- Corrie BerkSan Antonio$155K
- Sonja BruneSan Antonio$51K
- Laura GalvanSan Antonio$32K
- Eduardo GonzalezSan Antonio$32K
- Roberta RomeroSan Antonio$26K
- Christopher GarciaSan Antonio$21K
- Jennifer ZavalaSan Antonio$17K
- Amy RivasSan Antonio$17K
- Alexis WahlenSan Antonio$16K
- Cecilia DavisAustin$262K
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.