RxDoctor Payments Data

Marian Couto, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Ponce, PRNPI 1013166586

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,137in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 124 payments — averaging $25.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$771
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$688
  • Boston Scientific$291
  • AstraZeneca$241
  • Bayer Puerto Rico Inc.$229
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$225
  • plus $691 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,137100%

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
Boehringer Ingelheim30$771
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)37$688
Boston Scientific6$291
AstraZeneca8$241
Bayer Puerto Rico Inc.8$229
PBG Puerto Rico LLC11$225
Abbott2$105
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.5$102
Edwards Lifesciences1$100
Amgen4$77
Medtronic1$73
Johnson & Johnson3$61
Merck3$58
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.2$53
Biotronik Inc.1$24
Novartis1$20
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$17

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

$3,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,922
Medicare patients
45
Services billed
103

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin243$185,753
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol163$130,641
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan73$69,017
EliquisApixaban73$59,516
BrilintaTicagrelor47$29,106
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium56$3,908
Metoprolol Succinate294$3,845
Atorvastatin Calcium321$2,967
Amlodipine-OlmesartanAmlodipine Bes/Olmesartan Med37$2,701
Ezetimibe132$2,411
Irbesartan82$2,374
Chlorthalidone144$2,137
Candesartan Cilexetil21$1,939
Rosuvastatin Calcium126$1,684
Spironolactone135$1,472

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$771$185,753243 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$241$159,747210 claims
NovartisEntresto$20$69,01773 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 50th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

Other cardiovascular disease in Ponce

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