Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

William Velasquez

Hematology & Oncology Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1346201175 CMS profile 241644

7737 Southwest Fwy, Suite 575, Houston, TX 77074

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General payments

$219,246

1,290 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, William Velasquez of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $219,246 across 1,290 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Hematology & Oncology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $11,509 171
2024 General $10,442 239
2023 General $8,837 186
2022 General $29,603 208
2021 General $16,123 157
2020 General $27,362 118
2019 General $115,371 211

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • William Velasquez
  • Hematology & Oncology median
  • Middle half of Hematology & Oncology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to William Velasquez were reported at $11,509. Among 8,769 Hematology & Oncology profiles paid that year, the median was $683 and the middle half received between $143 and $3,154.

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Year William Velasquez Hematology & Oncology median Middle half National median
2019 $115,371 $529 $121–$2,516 $163
2020 $27,362 $339 $82–$2,213 $114
2021 $16,123 $263 $49–$1,965 $132
2022 $29,603 $416 $103–$2,395 $149
2023 $8,837 $542 $125–$2,646 $160
2024 $10,442 $692 $141–$3,008 $164
2025 $11,509 $683 $143–$3,154 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $63,595 121 payments
  2. Celgene Corporation $36,942 99 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $32,811 84 payments
  4. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $21,593 111 payments
  5. Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $9,668 15 payments
  6. Coherus Biosciences Inc. $5,779 7 payments
  7. Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. $5,550 10 payments
  8. Seattle Genetics, Inc. $5,527 19 payments
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $4,447 34 payments
  10. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $3,404 11 payments
  11. Other $29,929 779 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $112,018 47 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $37,069 18 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $35,285 65 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $30,324 1,133 payments
  5. Honoraria $3,000 2 payments
  6. Education $750 23 payments
  7. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $565 1 payment
  8. Grant $235 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DARZALEX $60,405 85 payments
  2. Kyprolis Oncology $24,319 31 payments
  3. Revlimid Hematology / Oncology $21,272 20 payments
  4. Pomalyst $13,652 41 payments
  5. Revlimid Hematology $12,113 7 payments
  6. ONIVYDE $8,333 12 payments
  7. Kyprolis Oncology $8,062 29 payments
  8. CARVYKTI $5,997 8 payments
  9. ADCETRIS $5,320 15 payments
  10. TALVEY $4,448 8 payments
  11. Other $60,282 1,251 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 50 drugs

Part D claims

1,911

Median for Medical Oncology: 414

Drug cost

$5,731,063

Median for Medical Oncology: $849,427

Branded share of claims

41.9%

Median for Medical Oncology: 28.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Calquence Acalabrutinib Maleate Brand 62 $896,220
Pomalyst Pomalidomide Brand 33 $756,379
Revlimid Lenalidomide Brand 40 $698,879
Lenalidomide Generic 46 $655,477
Ibrance Palbociclib Brand 42 $630,186
Imbruvica Ibrutinib Brand 20 $305,707
Ninlaro Ixazomib Citrate Brand 24 $292,601
Erleada Apalutamide Brand 20 $292,399
Zejula Niraparib Tosylate Brand 16 $286,662
Kisqali Ribociclib Succinate Brand 11 $172,050

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 50 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 3,431 Part D prescribers listed as Medical Oncology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 96 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$737,124

Of which drugs: $604,638

Medicare patients

171

Average age 76

Services billed

60,466

89 women, 82 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 51%
Diabetes 38%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Cancer 35%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Heart failure 27%
Atrial fibrillation 25%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, darbepoetin alfa, 1 microgram (non-esrd use) J0881 Office 15 24,000 $55,879
Injection, palonosetron hcl, 25 mcg J2469 Office 11 710 $540
Low osmolar contrast material, 300-399 mg/ml iodine concentration, per ml Q9967 Office 17 2,300 $234

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 82 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
XPOVIO
$2,920 — —
KEYTRUDA
$351 — —
OPDIVO
$342 — —
ENHERTU
$229 — —
REBLOZYL
$219 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,290 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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