RxDoctor Payments Data

Juan Rodriguez Acosta, MD

Cardiology · Mayaguez, PRNPI 1114992443

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $11,761 of the $15,249 with a category attached, or 77.1%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 57.8% of the total.

$15,249in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 385 payments — averaging $39.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$9K
  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • AstraZeneca$1K
  • Abbott$963
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$593
  • Johnson & Johnson$567
  • plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,10014%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7005%
  • Travel & lodging$4183%
  • Food & beverage$11,76177%
  • Education$1951%
  • Gifts$750%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)147$8,812
Boston Scientific64$1,371
AstraZeneca47$1,187
Abbott45$963
Boehringer Ingelheim10$593
Johnson & Johnson18$567
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.18$443
Edwards Lifesciences2$254
PBG Puerto Rico LLC12$246
Bayer2$191
Merck3$164
Chiesi USA, Inc.4$136
Novartis5$104
Amgen2$92
Bayer Puerto Rico Inc.2$50
Terumo Medical Corporation2$40
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC1$24
Cordis US CORP.1$13

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

Too few cardiology providers in Puerto Ricoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,094
Medicare patients
24
Services billed
80

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
BrilintaTicagrelor163$74,538
EliquisApixaban45$28,329
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol46$28,118
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan26$21,442
XareltoRivaroxaban12$6,903
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate188$1,393
Candesartan Cilexetil24$1,222
Nitroglycerin PatchNitroglycerin24$942
Losartan Potassium110$890
Metoprolol Succinate71$805
Atorvastatin Calcium75$591
Nitroglycerin35$448
Isosorbide Dinitrate13$407
Carvedilol54$370
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate37$360

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
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$1,187$102,656209 claims
NovartisEntresto$104$21,44226 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$567$6,90312 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. There are too few cardiology providers in Puerto Ricoon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Other cardiology in Mayaguez

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