Lourdes Aponte, MD
Rheumatology · Lewes, DENPI 1144299959
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 959 payments — averaging $20.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$3K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Lilly USA, LLC$2K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$1K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- plus $8K from 43 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2401%
- Food & beverage$18,73195%
- Education$7584%
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.
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 rheumatology providers in Delawareto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 51 | $443,077 |
| Enbrel MiniEtanercept | 25 | $255,271 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 11 | $209,540 |
| Humira(Cf)Adalimumab | 25 | $183,413 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 29 | $162,861 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 48 | $100,200 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 16 | $94,175 |
| Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol | 13 | $74,964 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 11 | $74,852 |
| XeljanzTofacitinib Citrate | 12 | $69,135 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 40 | $49,362 |
| EliquisApixaban | 31 | $37,746 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 29 | $37,376 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 17 | $27,574 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 446 | $27,169 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieHumira(Cf), Savella, Linzess | $2,322 | $211,79262 claims |
| PfizerXeljanz, Eliquis | $1,115 | $106,88143 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $342 | $100,20048 claims |
| UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack) | $966 | $74,96413 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $337 | $49,36240 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,145 | $37,37629 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $179 | $26,61032 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $462 | $17,19617 claims |
| MerckJanumet | $34 | $9,09015 claims |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US IncQuviviq | $180 | $7,92017 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 rheumatology providers in Delawareon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other rheumatology in Lewes
- Jose PandoLewes$335K
- Sheerin JavedNewark$13K
- Jinsong ZhangDover$11K
- Philip SchwartzWilmington$10K
- Ivonne HerreraSeaford$9K
- Amy ZhangNewark$8K
- Surjeet DheerDover$7K
- Yvan Maque AcostaDover$5K
- Robert MoyerDover$3K
- Shakaib QureshiWilmington$2K
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.