Leonardo Cortez, MD
Internal Medicine · Kailua Kona, HINPI 1497845937
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 188 payments — averaging $19.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- GSK$490
- Boehringer Ingelheim$449
- AstraZeneca$348
- Lilly USA, LLC$201
- Novo Nordisk$184
- plus $810 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,58699%
- Education$211%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 54 | $1,123 |
| GSK | 29 | $490 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 21 | $449 |
| AstraZeneca | 18 | $348 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $201 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $184 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $152 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 8 | $124 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $122 |
| Merck | 3 | $58 |
| Bayer | 4 | $54 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $51 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $50 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $29 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$3,606 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 655 internal medicine providers in Hawaii.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 107 | $119,199 |
| EliquisApixaban | 71 | $95,574 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 63 | $82,398 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 29 | $41,258 |
| XifaxanRifaximin | 12 | $38,625 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $37,352 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 53 | $34,885 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 18 | $30,913 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 19 | $28,008 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 19 | $27,286 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 24 | $26,033 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 25 | $24,855 |
| Victoza 3-PakLiraglutide | 12 | $17,009 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 17 | $13,533 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 15 | $11,095 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $449 | $132,732124 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $122 | $95,57471 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $184 | $82,39863 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $201 | $68,54548 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $152 | $37,35225 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $490 | $34,88553 claims |
| AmgenProlia | $1,123 | $30,91318 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $348 | $29,79938 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $58 | $26,03324 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 655 internal medicine providers in Hawaii.
Other internal medicine in Kailua Kona
- Frank HurstKailua Kona$10K
- Michael SavonaWailuku$520K
- Scott StromattKamuela$385K
- Keith WooHonolulu$106K
- Ronald PerryHonolulu$102K
- Laurie TomHonolulu$95K
- Yusuke MiyataniHonolulu$80K
- Joshua TanHonolulu$76K
- Jose de LeonHonolulu$52K
- Peter DeeHonolulu$49K
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.