Jose Alvarez, MD
General Practice · Miami, FLNPI 1205873817
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $3382.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$166K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$43K
- AstraZeneca$43K
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$20K
- Novo Nordisk AS$18K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$10K
- plus $14K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,60087%
- Food & beverage$1,01813%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 34 | $165,900 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 15 | $43,455 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $43,149 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20,175 |
| Novo Nordisk AS | 2 | $17,639 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 7 | $9,859 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $6,886 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $6,806 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 7 | $159 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $125 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Abbott | 2 | $31 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $23 |
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.
- VRAYLAR$6,850
- ABILIFY MAINTENA$122
- ABILIFY ASIMTUFII$122
- ELUVIA$102
How this compares
$314,601 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,901 general practice providers in Florida.
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 | 88 | $56,162 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 25 | $24,361 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 16 | $20,065 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 30 | $17,645 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 14 | $16,175 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 20 | $11,822 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 327 | $9,424 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 18 | $9,063 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 36 | $8,183 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 60 | $6,344 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 615 | $3,554 |
| Insulin Aspart FlexpenInsulin Aspart | 11 | $2,628 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 378 | $2,454 |
| Dabigatran EtexilateDabigatran Etexilate Mesylate | 14 | $2,098 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 115 | $1,941 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $43,149 | $20,00556 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 95th percentile of 6,901 general practice providers in Florida.
Other general practice in Miami
- Jose CardonaMiami$71M
- Armando AcevedoMiami$15.2M
- Jorge AmayaMiami$14.2M
- Hector RodriguezMiami$12.8M
- Idalia AcostaMiami$11.4M
- Lilia Rodriguez AblesMiami$10.7M
- Omar BenitezMiami$6.9M
- Sara LlerenaMiami$6.3M
- Ana AcostaMiami$6.3M
- Gil Fernandez-YeraMiami$4.9M
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.