Jose Cruz, DO
Hematology & Oncology · Edinburg, TXNPI 1942629001
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 214 payments — averaging $135.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novocure Inc.$21K
- Eisai Inc.$2K
- Pfizer$630
- Seagen Inc.$607
- AstraZeneca$604
- Bristol Myers Squibb$317
- plus $3K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,01026%
- Food & beverage$4,95765%
- Education$6238%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novocure Inc. | 5 | $21,493 |
| Eisai Inc. | 12 | $2,317 |
| Pfizer | 36 | $630 |
| Seagen Inc. | 14 | $607 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $604 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 15 | $317 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $271 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $255 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $217 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $177 |
| Merck | 6 | $173 |
| Amgen | 5 | $169 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Bayer | 9 | $159 |
| Sobi, Inc | 8 | $150 |
| Novartis | 7 | $143 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $130 |
| Gilead | 1 | $125 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $122 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| GSK | 4 | $69 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 3 | $60 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Immunogen, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Pharmaand GmbH | 1 | $4 |
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.
- LENVIMA$2,135
- NovoTTF-100L$125
- CALQUENCE$125
- PADCEV$125
- Yescarta$125
- TAGRISSO$124
- TUKYSA$124
- LYNPARZA$124
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$109
How this compares
$28,934 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 70 | $993,754 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 34 | $518,644 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 39 | $509,842 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 29 | $464,060 |
| LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate | 18 | $441,513 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 20 | $349,154 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 14 | $258,378 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 11 | $171,976 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 25 | $112,773 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 48 | $72,593 |
| XgevaDenosumab | 12 | $36,624 |
| EliquisApixaban | 36 | $26,819 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 30 | $22,928 |
| Exemestane | 28 | $5,310 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $3,694 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $255 | $993,75470 claims |
| BayerNubeqa | $159 | $509,84239 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $630 | $490,87965 claims |
| Eisai Inc.Lenvima | $2,317 | $441,51318 claims |
| AstraZenecaTagrisso | $604 | $349,15420 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $317 | $258,37814 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $60 | $171,97611 claims |
| AmgenXgeva | $169 | $36,62412 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $271 | $22,92830 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 60th percentile of 838 hematology & oncology providers in Texas.
Other hematology & oncology in Edinburg
- Elias JabbourHouston$264.1M
- Luhua WangHouston$79.6M
- Courtney DinardoHouston$74M
- Jorge Cortes-FrancoHouston$59.4M
- William WierdaHouston$58.7M
- Koji SasakiHouston$39.2M
- Kyriakos PapadopoulosSan Antonio$18.5M
- Loretta NastoupilHouston$18.3M
- Christopher FlowersHouston$17.2M
- Drew RascoSan Antonio$14.1M
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.