RxDoctor Payments Data

Frantony Mercado Cabrera, MD

Interventional Cardiology · Mayaguez, PRNPI 1255774832

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,111 of the $12,032 with a category attached, or 84.0%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 28.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,516 and has fallen 52.3% since, to $2,153 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional cardiology clinicians in PR, where the typical reported total is $12,032.

$12,032in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 302 payments — averaging $39.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$3K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Boston Scientific$2K
  • Biotronik Inc.$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$822
  • AstraZeneca$482
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,82915%
  • Food & beverage$10,11184%
  • Education$921%

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

$12,032 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 39 interventional cardiology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$23,501
Medicare patients
44
Services billed
175

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 Propanediol119$83,757
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan98$70,266
XareltoRivaroxaban49$33,015
EliquisApixaban41$29,069
JardianceEmpagliflozin38$23,612
BrilintaTicagrelor35$16,855
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab22$12,313
Candesartan Cilexetil110$7,848
Candesartan-HydrochlorothiazidCandesartan/Hydrochlorothiazid37$3,544
EdarbyclorAzilsartan Med/Chlorthalidone12$2,975
Rosuvastatin Calcium231$2,628
Metoprolol Succinate232$2,557
Atorvastatin Calcium291$2,338
Chlorthalidone181$2,089
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate216$2,049

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$482$100,612154 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$291$33,01549 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$32$23,61238 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$71$1,58812 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 50th percentile of 39 interventional cardiology providers in Puerto Rico.

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