Helder Hernandez Rivera, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Ponce, PRNPI 1437318284
Payments from drug & device makers
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 180 | $12,297 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 320 | $7,704 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $3,808 |
| Boston Scientific | 188 | $3,639 |
| Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC | 9 | $2,816 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 44 | $880 |
| Johnson And Johnson International | 21 | $853 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $763 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 38 | $524 |
| PBG Puerto Rico LLC | 23 | $430 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $312 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 8 | $256 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $225 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Novartis | 6 | $109 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $101 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $100 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 3 | $64 |
| Amgen | 2 | $35 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Cardinal Health P.r. 120 Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ELIQUIS$6,582
- Ensite Cardiac Mapping System$4,125
- Advisor Catheter$3,577
- Micra$1,662
- Agilis NxT EP Introducer$825
- EnSite Velocity System Mapping D$819
- AVEIR$267
- JARDIANCE$246
- CryoConsole$155
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$125
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$125
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$125
- FARXIGA$125
- Carto 3$123
- CARDIOBLATE CRYOFLEX$115
- EMBLEM$110
- LUX-Dx Insertable Cardiac Monitor$108
- Watchman$103
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$101
- RESONATE$101
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.
See all clinical cardiac electrophysiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 526 | $327,838 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 207 | $130,613 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 64 | $44,237 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 61 | $37,023 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 794 | $7,770 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 216 | $4,644 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 125 | $4,346 |
| Carvedilol | 180 | $1,084 |
| Candesartan Cilexetil | 19 | $956 |
| Spironolactone | 116 | $951 |
| Cephalexin | 101 | $946 |
| Irbesartan-HydrochlorothiazideIrbesartan/Hydrochlorothiazide | 30 | $708 |
| Losartan Potassium | 91 | $680 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 34 | $602 |
| Diltiazem Hcl | 16 | $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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part 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.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Ponce
- Francisco PerezPonce$286K
- Leonell FreytesPonce$79K
- Sergio Alegre-BoschettiPonce$48K
- Juan Sotomonte ArizaSan Juan$139K
- Hector BanchsCarolina$132K
- Hilton Franqui-RiveraToa Alta$131K
- Richard Silva-CantilloSan Juan$101K
- Suleyka Olivero-RiveraBayamon$76K
- Willibaldo OjedaBayamon$75K
- Javier Mirabal ArroyoBayamon$51K
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.