RxDoctor Payments Data

Gloria Ponce, MD

Internal Medicine · Mayaquez, PRNPI 1336189315

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,994in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $34.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$285
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$175
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$160
  • Johnson & Johnson$127
  • Lilly USA, LLC$60
  • plus $166 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,988100%
  • Education$60%

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
AstraZeneca28$1,020
PBG Puerto Rico LLC13$285
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.2$175
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC6$160
Johnson & Johnson2$127
Lilly USA, LLC1$60
GSK2$55
AbbVie2$45
Medtronic1$42
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$24

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

$1,994 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,362
Medicare patients
18
Services billed
64

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 Propanediol149$92,546
XareltoRivaroxaban56$38,883
EliquisApixaban56$32,438
TrulicityDulaglutide26$25,755
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium337$24,047
Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin22$14,703
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$14,124
Candesartan Cilexetil85$11,009
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl25$10,686
Humalog Mix 75-25Insulin Lispro Protamin/Lispro34$8,808
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$7,764
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog66$6,764
Candesartan-HydrochlorothiazidCandesartan/Hydrochlorothiazid38$6,682
Losartan Potassium465$6,195
Humulin 70-30Insulin Nph Hum/Reg Insulin Hm52$6,170

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$1,020$92,546149 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Humalog Mix 75-25, Humulin 70-30, Humalog$60$43,264138 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$127$38,88356 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$45$24,047337 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$160$6,76466 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 75th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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