RxDoctor Payments Data

Elvin Soto Hernandez, MD

Nephrology · Aguadilla, PRNPI 1699030445

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,641in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $56.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Nxstage Medical, Inc.$286
  • Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc.$275
  • AstraZeneca$234
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$189
  • Medtronic$127
  • Johnson & Johnson$108
  • plus $421 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,55695%
  • Education$855%

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.

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

$1,641 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 161 nephrology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$13,420
Medicare patients
13
Services billed
83

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
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate63$45,876
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol61$36,029
Lanthanum Carbonate45$25,610
Sevelamer Carbonate198$25,476
JardianceEmpagliflozin16$9,897
TradjentaLinagliptin15$7,956
RetacritEpoetin Alfa-Epbx14$6,281
Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate35$3,402
Calcium Acetate43$2,979
Bumetanide65$2,103
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$1,222
Hydralazine Hcl94$1,160
Irbesartan62$1,008
Humulin 70-30Insulin Nph Hum/Reg Insulin Hm11$1,002
Nifedipine ErNifedipine43$679

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
AstraZenecaLokelma, Farxiga$234$81,905124 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$39$17,85331 claims
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Valsartan$83$39215 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 45th percentile of 161 nephrology providers in Puerto Rico.

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