Ariel Bermudez, MD
Surgery · Bayamon, PRNPI 1952314254
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $11,000 of the $18,116 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in PR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 69 payments — averaging $262.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Johnson And Johnson International$3K
- BD$75
- Johnson & Johnson$62
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$62
- Medtronic$16
- plus $7 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,38730%
- Food & beverage$1,72910%
- Education$11,00061%
General payments by program year
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 29 | $15,135 |
| Johnson And Johnson International | 31 | $2,759 |
| BD | 3 | $75 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $62 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $7 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$11,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,468
- Echelon Flex$1,146
- SECURESTRAP$916
- PROCEED Products$916
How this compares
$18,116 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 202 surgery providers in Puerto Rico.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Nabumetone | 198 | $1,147 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 34 | $737 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $120 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bayamon
- Miguel Baez StellaBayamon$48K
- Emilio Perez de LeonBayamon$17K
- Ricardo CatalaBayamon$9K
- Luis A Rodriguez EscolaBayamon$8K
- Mario Bernal PablosBayamon$8K
- Alanna GuzmanBayamon$2K
- Luis GuaspMayaguez$148K
- Fernando Rivera CruzSan Juan$88K
- Laura Rodriguez RiveraPonce$73K
- Jorge Pelet MejiasSan Juan$50K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.