Francois Soto Palou, MD
Urology · San Juan, PRNPI 1598162182
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $25,000 of the $26,332 with a category attached, or 94.9%. Boston Scientific accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $25,107 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $210 in 2025.
Across 14 payments — averaging $1880.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$25K
- Teleflex LLC$368
- Olympus Latin America, Inc.$125
- Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.$120
- Ambu Inc.$118
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$100
- plus $163 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$25,00095%
- Food & beverage$1,3325%
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 | 4 | $25,339 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $368 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $90 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $61 |
| PBG Puerto Rico LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$25,000
- UroLift$261
- AMS 700 CXR RTE KIT$139
- Bovie$125
- LithoVue$122
- TLANDO$120
- UroLift System$107
- OPDIVO$100
How this compares
$26,332 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 122 urology providers in Puerto Rico.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 19 | $11,470 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 104 | $9,455 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 175 | $2,405 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 15 | $1,802 |
| Estradiol | 12 | $876 |
| Methenamine Hippurate | 15 | $616 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 20 | $462 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 43 | $434 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 16 | $421 |
| Bicalutamide | 18 | $395 |
| Levofloxacin | 31 | $317 |
| Meloxicam | 47 | $146 |
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 14 | $131 |
| Cephalexin | 25 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in San Juan
- Andres Perez RomanSan Juan$58K
- Rafael Bouet BlasiniSan Juan$55K
- Jose Saavedra-BelaundeSan Juan$45K
- Francisco CapoSan Juan$38K
- Gil NievesSan Juan$30K
- Pablo Ortiz CerezoSan Juan$20K
- Jorge Rivera HerreraSan Juan$19K
- Eduardo CantoSan Juan$17K
- Hector Cardona DobleSan Juan$13K
- Antonio Puras BaezSan Juan$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.