RxDoctor Payments Data

Maria Vazquez, MD

Internal Medicine · Carolina, PRNPI 1669673018

Payments from drug & device makers

$470in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $26.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$145
  • Sanofi$90
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$66
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$61
  • Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$25
  • AbbVie$25
  • plus $58 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$470100%

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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25

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.

How this compares

$470 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,728
Medicare patients
41
Services billed
133

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$53,320
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate64$46,608
EliquisApixaban32$22,233
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium306$20,682
XareltoRivaroxaban21$18,377
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol29$18,034
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan20$16,261
MounjaroTirzepatide16$15,002
RybelsusSemaglutide12$12,349
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl17$8,796
Mesalamine12$7,529
Candesartan-HydrochlorothiazidCandesartan/Hydrochlorothiazid73$6,703
Invokamet XrCanagliflozin/Metformin Hcl11$6,629
CrestorRosuvastatin Calcium13$6,321
Candesartan Cilexetil52$5,296

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Crestor$18$24,35542 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$25$20,682306 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$145$18,37721 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 45th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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