RxDoctor Payments Data

Jose Rivera, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Arecibo, PRNPI 1225144868

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,883in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $101.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$558
  • Medtronic$529
  • AstraZeneca$188
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$106
  • plus $265 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,83065%
  • Travel & lodging$1993%
  • Food & beverage$1,85031%
  • Education$50%

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

$5,883 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$21,536
Medicare patients
51
Services billed
232

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
EliquisApixaban342$423,333
XareltoRivaroxaban109$140,841
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol107$134,281
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan64$108,417
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate54$64,181
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium489$58,486
MultaqDronedarone Hcl28$50,290
JardianceEmpagliflozin41$44,202
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl35$32,182
Metoprolol Succinate1,353$31,236
Rosuvastatin Calcium1,562$29,662
TradjentaLinagliptin28$29,173
BrilintaTicagrelor27$28,858
Candesartan Cilexetil213$27,071
Losartan Potassium1,580$21,328

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
PfizerEliquis$1,750$423,333342 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$188$163,139134 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$2,487$140,841109 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 70th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

Other cardiovascular disease in Arecibo

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