Veronica Torres
Physician Assistant · Dallas, TXNPI 1376171074
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 233 payments — averaging $21.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- AbbVie$983
- Lilly USA, LLC$537
- Johnson & Johnson$488
- GSK$373
- UCB, Inc.$276
- plus $973 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,90199%
- Education$421%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 66 | $1,314 |
| AbbVie | 45 | $983 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $537 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 27 | $488 |
| GSK | 20 | $373 |
| UCB, Inc. | 9 | $276 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $141 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $107 |
| Novartis | 4 | $97 |
| Indivior Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $65 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $62 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $38 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Organon | 2 | $36 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Alkermes, 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
$4,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 70 | $2,527 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 79 | $1,952 |
| Gabapentin | 61 | $902 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 85 | $843 |
| Prednisone | 51 | $220 |
| Methocarbamol | 20 | $199 |
| Allopurinol | 29 | $169 |
| Folic Acid | 11 | $104 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 14 | $47 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Dallas
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Sofia NeicherilDallas$62K
- Shawn SommerladDallas$53K
- Katherine TurnerDallas$43K
- Tori BurnsDallas$39K
- Suzanne RaczDallas$32K
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.