Vicente Mendez
Physician Assistant · Brownsville, TXNPI 1275363632
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 39 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 39 payments — averaging $25.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$219
- Insulet Corporation$156
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$123
- Radius Health, Inc.$63
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$45
- Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.$36
- plus $342 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$983100%
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.
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 | 7 | $219 |
| Insulet Corporation | 3 | $156 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 4 | $123 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $34 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $32 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $28 |
| Sequel Med Tech, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $18 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Bayer | 1 | $14 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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
$983 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Other physician assistant in Brownsville
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
- Holly GloverArlington$418K
- Kirk GautierAthens$416K
- Jaime RomanPlano$338K
- Michael WhiteDallas$276K
- Heidi JeffreysLubbock$259K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.