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Amedee Lefebre Fernandez, MD

Internal Medicine · Penuelas, PRNPI 1013073857

Payments from drug & device makers

$734in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $20.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$277
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$223
  • Lilly USA, LLC$87
  • Johnson & Johnson$51
  • Amgen$38
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$26
  • plus $32 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$734100%

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.

General payments by program year

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25

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.

How this compares

$734 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,480
Medicare patients
17
Services billed
125

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol155$140,628
JardianceEmpagliflozin185$129,562
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate151$117,317
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl95$96,908
EliquisApixaban112$93,968
BrilintaTicagrelor64$55,201
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium501$37,989
JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl50$32,292
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog232$29,964
TradjentaLinagliptin26$29,708
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl30$28,383
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl31$27,848
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin27$22,296
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan21$14,494
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters299$14,357

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$277$195,830219 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$26$29,964232 claims
Lilly USA, LLCHumalog, Humulin 70-30$87$17,760131 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$13$14,23434 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$51$10,79811 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 50th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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