Guillermo Bolanos, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Ponce, PRNPI 1619072949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (49.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 160 payments — averaging $245.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$27K
- Medtronic$8K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$651
- Baxter Healthcare$622
- Olympus Latin America, Inc.$263
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,20011%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7002%
- Travel & lodging$8,51122%
- Food & beverage$6,39616%
- Education$19,50050%
- Gifts$240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 51 | $27,050 |
| Medtronic | 46 | $8,376 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 9 | $1,224 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $651 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $622 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 4 | $263 |
| Covidien LP | 4 | $256 |
| Johnson And Johnson International | 4 | $221 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 5 | $132 |
| BD | 2 | $126 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Stryker | 1 | $73 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $71 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $45 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $41 |
| Merck | 1 | $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.
- DAVINCI XI$19,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$6,530
- Olympus$2,164
- Signia$989
- 4K CAMERA HEAD$674
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$642
- TISSEEL$461
- GIA$234
- Harmonic$108
- VISTASEAL$108
- XARELTO$100
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$100
How this compares
Too few surgical critical care providers in Puerto Ricoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 15 | $10,263 |
| Sucralfate | 17 | $2,065 |
| Humulin RInsulin Regular, Human | 19 | $770 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 79 | $706 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 37 | $430 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 31 | $391 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 37 | $354 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 29 | $154 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 16 | $153 |
| Metronidazole | 23 | $133 |
| Gabapentin | 22 | $89 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $77 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $651 | $10,26315 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. There are too few surgical critical care providers in Puerto Ricoon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other surgical critical care in Ponce
- Pablo Rodriguez-OrtizRio Piedras$6K
- Julio Peguero RiveraSanta Isabel$3K
- Marcos Salgado-CrespoSan Juan$3K
- Nydia de SotoSan Juan$1K
- Mariluz Rivera HernandezSan Juan$428
- Victor Aquino JoseGuayama$127
- Julio Lopez-MaldonadoSan Juan$48
- Yvonne Baerga VarelaSan Juan$26
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.