RxDoctor Payments Data

Eileen Ramirez-Vilches, MD

Internal Medicine · Rio Piedras, PRNPI 1942277918

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,150in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $39.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$648
  • AstraZeneca$210
  • Johnson & Johnson$169
  • Lilly USA, LLC$55
  • Merck$34
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$21
  • plus $13 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,150100%

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
Boehringer Ingelheim10$648
AstraZeneca10$210
Johnson & Johnson4$169
Lilly USA, LLC1$55
Merck2$34
PBG Puerto Rico LLC1$21
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$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

$1,150 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,203
Medicare patients
13
Services billed
37

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin115$89,516
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol71$43,044
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl58$36,588
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl44$27,372
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium389$25,312
TradjentaLinagliptin32$24,062
EliquisApixaban33$22,128
JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl35$20,609
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate29$16,920
Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin23$16,597
XareltoRivaroxaban17$13,102
Candesartan Cilexetil113$8,611
Atorvastatin Calcium627$6,889
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin11$6,485
Humalog Mix 75-25Insulin Lispro Protamin/Lispro20$5,870

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Tradjenta, Jentadueto, Trijardy Xr$648$178,156249 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia$34$53,50887 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$210$43,04471 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$169$13,10217 claims
Lilly USA, LLCHumalog Mix 75-25, Humulin 70-30, Humalog$55$9,90361 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 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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