RxDoctor Payments Data

Marcos Velazquez, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Mayaguez, PRNPI 1518925288

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,701in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $37.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$951
  • Johnson & Johnson$882
  • Medtronic$848
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$785
  • AstraZeneca$593
  • Amgen$470
  • plus $1K from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,65299%
  • Education$491%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Boston Scientific20$951
Johnson & Johnson22$882
Medtronic(2 entities)24$848
Boehringer Ingelheim16$785
AstraZeneca17$593
Amgen10$470
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)18$435
PBG Puerto Rico LLC11$192
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.2$114
Abbott1$103
Pfizer1$84
Merck2$77
Novartis1$60
Bayer3$49
Edwards Lifesciences1$29
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC2$28

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

$5,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,922
Medicare patients
55
Services billed
146

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
EliquisApixaban149$182,921
XareltoRivaroxaban122$139,663
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan76$85,220
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol59$52,681
JardianceEmpagliflozin38$40,068
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab31$25,251
Candesartan Cilexetil149$21,678
BrilintaTicagrelor19$12,214
Metoprolol Succinate521$11,430
Candesartan-HydrochlorothiazidCandesartan/Hydrochlorothiazid60$10,755
Atorvastatin Calcium651$8,942
Losartan Potassium598$8,898
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters70$8,382
Irbesartan177$5,976
Rosuvastatin Calcium376$5,650

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
PfizerEliquis$84$182,921149 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$882$139,663122 claims
NovartisEntresto$60$85,22076 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Atacand$593$68,72490 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$785$40,06838 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 65th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

Other cardiovascular disease in Mayaguez

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