RxDoctor Payments Data

Albert Suarez-Dominguez, MD

Surgery · San Juan, PRNPI 1396704623

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,200 of the $6,063 with a category attached, or 69.3%. Medtronic accounts for 81.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,319 and has fallen 83.0% since, to $736 in 2025.

$6,063in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $356.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$5K
  • Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$460
  • Stryker$146
  • Biom'up SA$125
  • Johnson And Johnson International$109
  • Merck$99
  • plus $188 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,20069%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$70012%
  • Travel & lodging$4608%
  • Food & beverage$70312%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic4$4,936
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas2$460
Stryker2$146
Biom'up SA1$125
Johnson And Johnson International1$109
Merck2$99
Teleflex LLC1$74
Johnson & Johnson2$45
Covidien LP1$38
Smith+Nephew1$32

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

$6,063 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 202 surgery providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,239
Medicare patients
14
Services billed
16

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

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