Luis Rivera Colon, MD
Internal Medicine · Rio Piedras, PRNPI 1376608984
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 541 payments — averaging $137.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch$46K
- Eli Lilly$9K
- AstraZeneca$5K
- Merck$5K
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$3K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
- plus $6K from 18 others
Across 54 payments — averaging $10,064 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch$431K
- Novo Nordisk AS$99K
- Eli Lilly$13K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,45826%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2001%
- Travel & lodging$1311%
- Food & beverage$14,97172%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch | 30 | $45,651 |
| Eli Lilly | 29 | $8,598 |
| AstraZeneca | 151 | $4,688 |
| Merck | 30 | $4,673 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 44 | $2,771 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 55 | $1,674 |
| Novo Nordisk | 37 | $1,286 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 34 | $976 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $957 |
| PBG Puerto Rico LLC | 43 | $864 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 12 | $330 |
| Abbott | 14 | $269 |
| GSK | 8 | $247 |
| Bayer Puerto Rico Inc. | 8 | $169 |
| Bayer | 2 | $168 |
| Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $140 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $133 |
| Amgen | 1 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $114 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 5 | $112 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $75 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $50 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $36 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
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.
- STEGLATRO$2,450
- DISEASE STATE$1,508
- GARDASIL9$1,500
- FARXIGA$1,048
- BREZTRI$613
- JARDIANCE$476
- MOUNJARO$353
- Ozempic$332
- XARELTO$250
- AIRSUPRA$244
- ZEPBOUND$237
- RYBELSUS$237
- SOTAGLIFLOZIN$200
- CAPVAXIVE$120
- Repatha$119
- LOKELMA$119
- SOLIQUA 100/33$104
- TZIELD$104
- TOUJEO$104
- DEXCOM G7 GSS (161)$102
How this compares
$74,118 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 329 | $246,196 |
| Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin | 278 | $220,762 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 178 | $149,170 |
| Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin | 176 | $133,468 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 97 | $105,787 |
| GlyxambiEmpagliflozin/Linagliptin | 112 | $94,422 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 94 | $93,306 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 98 | $67,018 |
| EliquisApixaban | 78 | $48,720 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 555 | $44,616 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 48 | $41,180 |
| SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 53 | $33,464 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 20 | $21,460 |
| LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 204 | $20,899 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 196 | $19,985 |
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 IngelheimTrijardy Xr, Jardiance, Glyxambi, Synjardy Xr, Synjardy | $1,674 | $576,476741 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Symbicort | $4,688 | $254,370354 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro, Humalog, Humulin N | $957 | $145,244295 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,286 | $93,30694 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $75 | $48,72078 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $114 | $44,616555 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $976 | $41,18048 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus | $2,771 | $20,899204 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $4,673 | $19,09718 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta | $247 | $5,79314 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 95th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.
Other internal medicine in Rio Piedras
- Elizabeth BarrancoPonce$8M
- Grisell Ortiz LasantaSan Juan$5.9M
- Ruben Santiago-LugoGuaynabo$1.3M
- Nelson VallejoLas Piedras$621K
- Ricardo FernandezSan Juan$480K
- Ronald Collazo PaganManati$206K
- Evelyn Matta FontanetRio Grande$200K
- Angel VinuelaDorado$182K
- Lumen Vera ColonAibonito$179K
- Pedro del Valle de TomasSan Juan$114K
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.