RxDoctor Payments Data

Felipe Velez Gonzalez, MD

Gastroenterology · Arecibo, PRNPI 1790012524

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,188in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $26.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$501
  • Johnson & Johnson$477
  • AstraZeneca$304
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$232
  • Olympus Latin America, Inc.$147
  • plus $150 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,188100%

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
AbbVie48$1,377
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.32$501
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)17$477
AstraZeneca3$304
PBG Puerto Rico LLC12$232
Olympus Latin America, Inc.1$147
KCI USA, Inc.1$49
Merck2$40
Organon1$25
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$22
Sanofi1$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

$3,188 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 198 gastroenterology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,822
Medicare patients
30
Services billed
109

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
SuprepSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates347$40,818
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf236$39,315
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase30$36,758
Sucralfate266$27,227
LinzessLinaclotide43$23,413
Naloxone Hcl1,123$13,867
OzempicSemaglutide13$12,629
Omeprazole838$4,104
Tetracycline Hcl34$4,001
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates38$3,177
Flumazenil343$2,883
Dicyclomine Hcl196$2,494
Pantoprazole Sodium258$1,747
Ursodiol19$1,500
Famotidine199$1,274

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
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$1,377$60,17173 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 198 gastroenterology providers in Puerto Rico.

Other gastroenterology in Arecibo

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