RxDoctor Payments Data

Natalio Izquierdo Encarnacion, MD

Ophthalmology · San Juan, PRNPI 1982652772

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $15,045 of the $15,830 with a category attached, or 95.0%. Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 95.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $11,060 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $88 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in PR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$15,830in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $479.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$15K
  • Amgen$160
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$118
  • Alcon Puerto Rico Inc$95
  • Novartis$75
  • Spark Therapeutics, Inc.$67
  • plus $127 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$15,04595%
  • Food & beverage$7675%
  • Education$180%

General payments by program year

19
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22
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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc.12$15,188
Amgen6$160
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.5$118
Alcon Puerto Rico Inc2$95
Novartis2$75
Spark Therapeutics, Inc.2$67
Alcon1$52
AbbVie2$50
Dompe US, Inc.1$25

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

$15,830 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 214 ophthalmology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$7,746
Medicare patients
34
Services billed
108

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
AzoptBrinzolamide95$36,386
Brimonidine Tartrate1,039$26,967
LumiganBimatoprost68$17,454
Dorzolamide Hcl407$13,176
Brinzolamide61$9,406
Travoprost70$7,754
RestasisCyclosporine12$7,475
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate28$6,886
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart28$5,886
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod18$4,663
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol17$3,504
Timolol Maleate240$3,286
Latanoprost232$3,262
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol12$2,681
Cyclosporine14$2,550

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
AlconAzopt, Simbrinza$52$42,272123 claims
AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Alphagan P, Combigan, Synthroid$50$35,910137 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$118$4,66318 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 214 ophthalmology providers in Puerto Rico.

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