Veronica Hughes, NP
Adult Health · Richmond, VANPI 1316179856
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,777 of the $11,932 with a category attached, or 65.2%. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 34.4% of the total. Among adult health clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 331 payments — averaging $36.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$4K
- Pfizer$2K
- Amgen$2K
- AbbVie$796
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$514
- UCB, Inc.$438
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,71523%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,44012%
- Food & beverage$7,77765%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 59 | $4,110 |
| Pfizer | 41 | $2,254 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 72 | $1,694 |
| AbbVie | 28 | $796 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 23 | $514 |
| UCB, Inc. | 18 | $438 |
| GSK | 7 | $377 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 14 | $267 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $230 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $195 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $85 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Sandoz | 3 | $73 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $68 |
| Novartis | 2 | $62 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Mylan Institutional Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $26 |
| Organon | 2 | $25 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biocon Biologics Inc | 1 | $16 |
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
$11,932 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 368 adult health providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 31 | $277,293 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 21 | $160,440 |
| Enbrel MiniEtanercept | 12 | $88,602 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 92 | $2,562 |
| Leflunomide | 45 | $2,404 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 84 | $2,029 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 41 | $1,296 |
| Pregabalin | 16 | $763 |
| Gabapentin | 46 | $713 |
| Colchicine | 12 | $564 |
| Prednisone | 89 | $551 |
| Sulfasalazine | 12 | $420 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 14 | $405 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $266 |
| Allopurinol | 33 | $231 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult health in Richmond
- Rebecca LordRichmond$8K
- Shawna BloweRichmond$7K
- Michele EvansRichmond$7K
- Andrea FunaiRichmond$7K
- Mona BrennerRichmond$5K
- Rachel VenableRichmond$5K
- Ana WileyRichmond$4K
- Christine KesslerFort Belvoir$107K
- Denise BruenCharlottesville$45K
- Theresa Harrington StukusFairfax$40K
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.