RxDoctor Payments Data

Carlos Carro Pagan, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Ponce, PRNPI 1154396489

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,091in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 154 payments — averaging $33.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$619
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$413
  • Boston Scientific$386
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$321
  • Bayer$273
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$4278%
  • Food & beverage$4,65992%
  • Education$40%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)34$1,623
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)34$619
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.13$413
Boston Scientific12$386
Boehringer Ingelheim11$321
Bayer4$273
AstraZeneca9$241
Johnson & Johnson9$216
Amgen6$196
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.2$150
GSK1$120
Merck5$107
Biom'up SA1$100
PBG Puerto Rico LLC4$86
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.1$84
Novartis2$43
Abbott2$38
Biotronik Inc.1$24
Bayer Puerto Rico Inc.1$23
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$14
Cardinal Health P.r. 120 Inc1$13

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

$5,091 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$30,250
Medicare patients
53
Services billed
277

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
EliquisApixaban373$244,451
XareltoRivaroxaban228$151,028
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol223$141,967
JardianceEmpagliflozin193$130,976
BrilintaTicagrelor245$123,840
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan153$111,326
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl81$47,284
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium518$30,598
Flecainide Acetate1,030$30,122
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab47$27,185
Amlodipine-OlmesartanAmlodipine Bes/Olmesartan Med544$26,443
Candesartan Cilexetil429$25,231
Bisoprolol-HydrochlorothiazideBisoprolol/Hydrochlorothiazide989$23,524
VerquvoVericiguat29$18,839
Atorvastatin Calcium2,294$17,884

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$241$265,807468 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$216$151,028228 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$321$130,976193 claims
NovartisEntresto$43$111,326153 claims
MerckJanumet, Verquvo, Januvia$107$80,548127 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 65th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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