RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Joshua Dela Cruz, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Oak Lawn, ILNPI 1720406408

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $190.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$14K
  • Cvrx, Inc.$284
  • Johnson & Johnson$182
  • Abiomed$182
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$150
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$122
  • plus $501 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$10,08966%
  • Travel & lodging$1,66811%
  • Food & beverage$3,33322%
  • Education$1511%

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.

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

$15,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$75,245
Medicare patients
153
Services billed
587

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$25,717
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$14,999
Metoprolol Succinate11$240
Spironolactone35$159
Furosemide14$39

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
NovartisEntresto$51$14,99916 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 80th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.

Other cardiovascular disease in Oak Lawn

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