Vernon Chavez, MD
Internal Medicine · Yuma, AZNPI 1023101052
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 196 payments — averaging $21.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$805
- AbbVie$609
- Bayer$475
- Amgen$389
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$243
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$203
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,02696%
- Education$1874%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 26 | $805 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 52 | $609 |
| Bayer | 25 | $475 |
| Amgen | 17 | $389 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $243 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 6 | $203 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $191 |
| Abbott | 2 | $170 |
| GSK | 4 | $166 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $137 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $135 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $83 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $59 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $55 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $25 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $23 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $17 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$4,213 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 73 | $85,883 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 69 | $81,237 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 38 | $75,772 |
| EliquisApixaban | 47 | $53,528 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 34 | $49,274 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 25 | $29,660 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 21 | $26,446 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 28 | $23,836 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 11 | $14,952 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 12 | $13,243 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 492 | $6,862 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 13 | $6,230 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $5,844 |
| Humulin N KwikpenInsulin Nph Human Isophane | 15 | $5,053 |
| Lisinopril | 411 | $3,562 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $59 | $85,88373 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $805 | $81,23769 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $137 | $75,77238 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $135 | $53,52847 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $475 | $49,27434 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $191 | $44,61236 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $166 | $30,06641 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $609 | $26,44621 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 90th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Yuma
- Robert SmytheYuma$1.1M
- Yessica SachdevaMesa$13.7M
- Louise TaberPhoenix$8.5M
- Janelle WeyerChandler$5.5M
- Robert MutterperlTucson$5.3M
- Jalal AbbasSun City West$4.8M
- Nebojsa SkrepnikTucson$4.7M
- Philip MathewTempe$4.1M
- Justin MoserScottsdale$3.9M
- Franz RischardTucson$3.7M
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.