Jorge Pelet Mejias, MD
Surgery · San Juan, PRNPI 1801980966
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $30,000 of the $49,998 with a category attached, or 60.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $17,644 and has fallen 68.6% since, to $5,536 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in PR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 96 payments — averaging $520.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$37K
- Covidien LP$9K
- Medtronic$3K
- Johnson And Johnson International$439
- Stryker$317
- Biom'up SA$125
- plus $229 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,00018%
- Travel & lodging$7,06914%
- Food & beverage$3,8958%
- Education$30,00060%
- Gifts$340%
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 | 40 | $36,540 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $9,000 |
| Medtronic | 32 | $3,348 |
| Johnson And Johnson International | 7 | $439 |
| Stryker | 5 | $317 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $125 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Merck | 3 | $58 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $38 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $19 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$25,942
- DAVINCI XI$10,000
- DFS$703
- Signia$390
- 1688$213
- HEMOBLAST$125
- ETHICON$117
- DERMABOND PRINEO$106
- STRATAFIX$106
- DERMABOND$106
How this compares
$49,998 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 202 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 18 | $6,214 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 81 | $2,421 |
| Gabapentin | 170 | $882 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 189 | $837 |
| Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | 24 | $265 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 13 | $171 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 17 | $155 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $125 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in San Juan
- Fernando Rivera CruzSan Juan$88K
- Eric EscribanoSan Juan$13K
- Milagros Fernandez VazquezSan Juan$12K
- William Mendez LatalladiSan Juan$10K
- Edwin Torres RiveraSan Juan$8K
- Jorge Sanchez-VivaldiSan Juan$7K
- Vangie Texidor CabanillasSan Juan$7K
- Eduardo Chinea AmadeoSan Juan$6K
- Albert Suarez-DominguezSan Juan$6K
- Pedro Hernandez RiveraSan Juan$5K
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.