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Helder Hernandez Rivera, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Ponce, PRNPI 1437318284

Payments from drug & device makers

$35,228in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 897 payments — averaging $39.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$12K
  • Medtronic$8K
  • Pfizer$4K
  • Boston Scientific$4K
  • Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC$3K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$880
  • plus $4K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,25023%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,05014%
  • Travel & lodging$3,84311%
  • Food & beverage$18,07651%
  • Education$80%

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

$35,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 22 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$32,643
Medicare patients
69
Services billed
287

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
EliquisApixaban526$327,838
XareltoRivaroxaban207$130,613
JardianceEmpagliflozin64$44,237
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol61$37,023
Metoprolol Succinate794$7,770
Amiodarone Hcl216$4,644
Flecainide Acetate125$4,346
Carvedilol180$1,084
Candesartan Cilexetil19$956
Spironolactone116$951
Cephalexin101$946
Irbesartan-HydrochlorothiazideIrbesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide30$708
Losartan Potassium91$680
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl34$602
Diltiazem Hcl16$567

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
PfizerEliquis$3,808$327,838526 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$763$130,613207 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$312$44,23764 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$225$37,02361 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 45th percentile of 22 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Puerto Rico.

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