RxDoctor Payments Data

Belkliz Torres, MD

Internal Medicine · Bayamon, PRNPI 1558312512

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,706in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 75 payments — averaging $22.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$434
  • Johnson & Johnson$427
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$357
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$190
  • Merck$139
  • Pfizer$70
  • plus $89 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,700100%
  • Education$60%

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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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
AstraZeneca20$434
Johnson & Johnson19$427
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.13$357
PBG Puerto Rico LLC9$190
Merck7$139
Pfizer2$70
Dexcom, Inc.2$34
GSK2$31
Novartis1$24

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

$1,706 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$18,666
Medicare patients
30
Services billed
233

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
EliquisApixaban142$103,387
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl105$85,732
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol80$70,491
XareltoRivaroxaban82$69,009
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate64$54,301
JardianceEmpagliflozin66$51,053
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium572$42,148
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl41$38,665
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter33$24,678
JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl30$18,676
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog182$15,110
Atorvastatin Calcium1,380$14,564
TradjentaLinagliptin17$14,537
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan19$13,916
Metoprolol Succinate873$13,356

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
MerckJanumet, Januvia, Janumet Xr$139$178,698210 claims
PfizerEliquis$70$103,387142 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$434$83,383104 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$427$69,00982 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta$31$46,30682 claims
NovartisEntresto$24$13,91619 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 75th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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