RxDoctor Payments Data

Vanessa Mendez, MD

Gastroenterology · Hialeah, FLNPI 1497021331

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,782in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 216 payments — averaging $22.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$588
  • Johnson & Johnson$506
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$414
  • QOL Medical, LLC$271
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$245
  • plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,67098%
  • Education$1122%

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

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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.

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

$4,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$13,246
Medicare patients
92
Services billed
116

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
StelaraUstekinumab294$7,767,856
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab55$603,733
Skyrizi On-BodyRisankizumab-Rzaa20$395,498
RinvoqUpadacitinib23$155,100
InflectraInfliximab-Dyyb11$151,578
EntyvioVedolizumab16$138,786
Mesalamine53$26,136
Balsalazide Disodium18$3,991
Budesonide EcBudesonide11$2,194
Azathioprine18$1,745
Omeprazole74$931
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates17$859
Dicyclomine Hcl31$688
Famotidine17$572
LoperamideLoperamide Hcl14$447

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$506$7,767,856294 claims
AbbVieRinvoq$1,248$155,10023 claims
PfizerInflectra$112$151,57811 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Entyvio$588$138,78616 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 55th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.

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