Keren Mendez Ramirez, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Ponce, PRNPI 1831540590
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,061 of the $7,902 with a category attached, or 64.0%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Steris Corporation at 35.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,179 and has fallen 83.2% since, to $870 in 2025.
Across 79 payments — averaging $100.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Steris Corporation$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- GSK$599
- AstraZeneca$451
- Bayer$271
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$265
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,06164%
- Food & beverage$2,84136%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Steris Corporation | 8 | $2,788 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $2,285 |
| GSK | 17 | $599 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $451 |
| Bayer | 6 | $271 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $265 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $209 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 4 | $182 |
| Merck | 3 | $155 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 6 | $152 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 4 | $99 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 2 | $61 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $38 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $24 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
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
$7,902 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 138 pulmonary disease providers in Puerto Rico.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AdempasRiociguat | 11 | $151,108 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 22 | $8,860 |
| Fluticasone Propionate HfaFluticasone Propionate | 16 | $4,734 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 11 | $2,613 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 25 | $993 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 39 | $622 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 20 | $111 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BayerAdempas | $271 | $151,10811 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $599 | $8,86022 claims |
| AstraZenecaSymbicort | $451 | $2,61311 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 80th percentile of 138 pulmonary disease providers in Puerto Rico.
Other pulmonary disease in Ponce
- Domingo Chardon FelicianoPonce$45K
- George FahedPonce$16K
- Giovanni Veloz IrizarryPonce$11K
- Dev Boodoosingh CasianoPonce$10K
- Jesse Aleman-OrtizPonce$10K
- Hector Puig-RamirezPonce$8K
- Sandra Galarza-VargasPonce$7K
- Ilean Lamboy HernandezPonce$5K
- Eugenio Rivera RiosPonce$3K
- Manuel Morell CataquetPonce$3K
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.