RxDoctor Payments Data

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.

$7,902in general payments, 2019–2025

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

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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

$7,902 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 138 pulmonary disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,963
Medicare patients
17
Services billed
100

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
AdempasRiociguat11$151,108
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol22$8,860
Fluticasone Propionate HfaFluticasone Propionate16$4,734
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$2,613
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate25$993
Fluticasone Propionate39$622
Pantoprazole Sodium20$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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart 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.

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