Has Darcy Diago Blanco received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,550 in general payments to Darcy Diago Blanco across 283 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Darcy Diago Blanco did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Darcy Diago Blanco come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Darcy Diago Blanco

Internal Medicine · Ponce, PRNPI 1619456944

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,471 of the $9,550 with a category attached, or 88.7%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 39.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,866, more than ten times the $33 reported in 2021. Among internal medicine 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.

$9,550in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 283 payments — averaging $33.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$4K
Medtronic$2K
Abbott$1K
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$400
PBG Puerto Rico LLC$347
Amgen$319
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$8879%
Food & beverage$8,47189%
Education$1922%

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

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
Boston Scientific	116	$3,785
Medtronic	37	$2,322
Abbott	47	$1,250
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	12	$400
PBG Puerto Rico LLC	20	$347
Amgen	5	$319
AstraZeneca	11	$215
Novartis	9	$173
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$168
Johnson & Johnson	8	$136
Edwards Lifesciences	2	$117
Pfizer	1	$89
Asahi Intecc USA, Inc.	1	$71
Merck	3	$49
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$35
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$23
Cordis US CORP.	1	$18
Bayer Puerto Rico Inc.	1	$17
Bayer	1	$16

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

$9,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	15	$225
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$139
Losartan Potassium	15	$108

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other internal medicine in Ponce

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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