Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

MANUEL VARGAS

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Rheumatology

NPI
1366838948
CMS profile
2784891
Location
NEW ORLEANS, LA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$3,761.25

  • Reported across 110 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$845.25

15 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $770.26 14
Education $74.99 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Amgen Inc. $279.78 5
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION $277.70 2
ABBVIE INC. $113.85 5
UCB, Inc. $84.47 1
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $74.99 1
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $14.46 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $872.46 33
PY2019 $243.26 3
PY2020 $113.39 5
PY2021 $434.65 13
PY2022 $628.57 28
PY2023 $623.67 13
PY2024 $845.25 15

Payment records · PY2024 (15)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $24.59 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106271756 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $22.36 07/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106271758 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $23.01 10/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106271760 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $22.67 10/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106271762 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $21.22 11/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106271764 CMS
Amgen Inc. $13.81 01/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111731813 CMS
Amgen Inc. $10.92 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111731815 CMS
Amgen Inc. $124.75 03/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111731819 CMS
Amgen Inc. $7.50 04/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111731817 CMS
Amgen Inc. $122.80 08/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1111731821 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $14.46 10/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101694316 CMS
Janssen Biotech, Inc. $74.99 04/25/2024 Education Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078679486 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $118.73 02/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1087386096 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $158.97 10/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1087386100 CMS
UCB, Inc. $84.47 06/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1143065491 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

One page per canonical provider; split Profile_IDs are merged via Associated_Covered_Recipient_Profile_ID_1/_2 from the Covered Recipient Profile Supplement.

Corrections to the substance of a record route to CMS through its review-and-dispute process; errors in how this site mirrors or displays a record route to us. Both paths are described in Methodology & Data.