RxDoctor Payments Data

Edgar Vazquez, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Mayaguez, PRNPI 1043329907

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,135in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 171 payments — averaging $24.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$704
  • AstraZeneca$383
  • Johnson & Johnson$352
  • Medtronic$279
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$232
  • plus $934 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,135100%

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
Boston Scientific60$1,251
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)43$704
AstraZeneca17$383
Johnson & Johnson12$352
Medtronic11$279
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.5$232
PBG Puerto Rico LLC9$184
Amgen2$173
Boehringer Ingelheim2$142
Edwards Lifesciences2$129
Abbott3$100
Pfizer1$84
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC2$76
Chiesi USA, Inc.2$45

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

$4,135 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$7,611
Medicare patients
22
Services billed
82

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 Propanediol276$167,324
EliquisApixaban252$155,252
CamzyosMavacamten14$115,838
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan137$95,366
XareltoRivaroxaban83$53,224
BrilintaTicagrelor49$22,981
Metoprolol Succinate1,031$9,623
Repatha SyringeEvolocumab14$9,615
Losartan Potassium1,141$8,716
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl11$6,925
Rosuvastatin Calcium965$6,825
Atorvastatin Calcium796$5,716
Spironolactone482$5,222
Amlodipine Besylate1,167$4,527
Candesartan Cilexetil51$3,720

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$383$190,305325 claims
PfizerEliquis$84$155,252252 claims
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Camzyos$232$115,83814 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$352$53,22483 claims
Boehringer IngelheimSynjardy$142$6,92511 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 55th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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