Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of August 10, 2026.
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Dr. Brenda Raquel Velasco, MD

Individual provider Gastroenterology Physician · NPI 1548422405

Dr. Brenda Raquel Velasco, MD practises Gastroenterology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduated from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2003, 23 years ago. Practices with Virtua Medical Group, PA, a 1,669-clinician group, works from 2 locations, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in New Jersey.

Years since qualifying
23
Trained at
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Licensed in
NJ
In the registry since
2008
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

3401 N Broad St Dept OF Gastroenterology Temple University Hospi
Philadelphia, PA 19140-5103
Phone: (215) 707-3433
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Additional practice locations (1)

  • 502 Centennial Blvd Ste 3, Voorhees, NJ 08043-9544 — (856) 751-2300

Specialties & licences

Gastroenterology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RG0100X · Licence 25MA08580000 (NJ)
Specialist Taxonomy 174400000X · Licence 25MA08580000 (NJ)

Record details

NPI number1548422405
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJuly 1, 2008
Last updated in NPPESOctober 9, 2024
Certification dateOctober 9, 2024

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGASTROENTEROLOGY
Also practisesINTERNAL MEDICINE
Medical schoolICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
Graduated 2003 (23 years in practice)
Group practice Virtua Medical Group, Pa — 1669 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services
Practice locations5 on file with Medicare

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Colonoscopy 134 times · 86th percentile
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux 124 times · 81st percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients463
Services billed 9,947 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age73

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Food and Beverage $424 23 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

  • Virtua Our Lady Of Lourdes Hospital Hospital · Camden, NJ · listed as Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Inc
  • Virtua Willingboro Hospital Hospital · Willingboro, NJ · listed as Virtua Willingboro Hospital Inc
  • Virtua Mount Holly Hospital Hospital · Mount Holly, NJ
  • West Jersey Hospital Hospital · Voorhees, NJ

Colleagues at Virtua Medical Group, PA

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1669 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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