RxDoctor Payments Data

Jose Padron, MD

Internal Medicine · Ponce, PRNPI 1598985251

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,924in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $28.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$927
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$323
  • Johnson & Johnson$309
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$120
  • AbbVie$120
  • AstraZeneca$62
  • plus $63 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,924100%

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

$1,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,665
Medicare patients
12
Services billed
60

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin68$85,161
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan22$20,950
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol20$20,800
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$19,948
XareltoRivaroxaban22$17,886
EliquisApixaban26$16,352
JentaduetoLinagliptin/Metformin Hcl15$16,113
BrilintaTicagrelor18$12,540
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol30$12,509
TradjentaLinagliptin12$12,494
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium75$8,633
Atorvastatin Calcium486$7,024
GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin11$6,794
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog68$6,357
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate17$3,967

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Jentadueto, Tradjenta, Glyxambi$120$120,562106 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Symbicort$62$37,30755 claims
MerckJanuvia$14$19,94813 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$309$17,88622 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$120$8,63375 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 75th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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