Velvet Torres, NP
Nurse Practitioner · San Antonio, TXNPI 1427523281
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 210 payments — averaging $23.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$909
- Lilly USA, LLC$727
- Medtronic$397
- Bayer$391
- Radius Health, Inc.$379
- Novo Nordisk$247
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,834100%
- Education$210%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 45 | $909 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 31 | $727 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $397 |
| Bayer | 18 | $391 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 11 | $379 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $247 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $185 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 5 | $160 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $156 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $128 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| GSK | 6 | $100 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 4 | $73 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $63 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Merck | 3 | $48 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Novartis | 3 | $44 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 3 | $44 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Halozyme Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $29 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $20 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Neuronetics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$4,855 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 17 | $578 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $468 |
| Fluoxetine Hcl | 11 | $428 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 16 | $252 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 24 | $250 |
| Omeprazole | 21 | $234 |
| Simvastatin | 24 | $190 |
| Lisinopril | 27 | $188 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 14 | $131 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 14 | $129 |
| Alprazolam | 16 | $119 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $112 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $97 |
| Lorazepam | 15 | $92 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Amy RivasSan Antonio$17K
- Erika SimpsonSan Antonio$16K
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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.