Veronica Cordero
Physician Assistant · Sacramento, CANPI 1104531565
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 94 payments — averaging $22.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$301
- Pfizer$222
- GSK$197
- Lilly USA, LLC$194
- Bayer$168
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$122
- plus $876 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,081100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 14 | $301 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $222 |
| GSK | 9 | $197 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $194 |
| Bayer | 6 | $168 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $107 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $106 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $61 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 4 | $60 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $52 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $45 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Novartis | 1 | $28 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $22 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$2,081 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,423 physician assistant providers in California.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $362 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 36 | $309 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 19 | $244 |
| Gabapentin | 20 | $223 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 13 | $154 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 24 | $106 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 18 | $89 |
| Lisinopril | 32 | $77 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $32 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 19 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Sacramento
- Franklin ClineSacramento$458K
- John QuigleyDowney$2.9M
- Andrea NguyenIrvine$1M
- Mikhail AlperMadera$889K
- Erin JensenUpland$716K
- Carla CrespoMarina del Rey$297K
- Katherine OsakiEl Centro$274K
- Shawna JonesFountain Valley$266K
- Heather AustinSalinas$219K
- Eric CheungLos Angeles$213K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.