Has Norberto Baez, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,660 in general payments to Norberto Baez, MD across 25 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Norberto Baez, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Norberto Baez, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Norberto Baez, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Mayaguez, PRNPI 1992793970

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Skeletal Dynamics Inc at 57.0% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $1,060, more than ten times the $51 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PR, where the typical reported total is $1,467.

$1,660in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $66.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Skeletal Dynamics Inc$946
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$192
AbbVie$152
Stryker$150
Zimmer Biomet$146
PBG Puerto Rico LLC$41
plus $33 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$94657%
Food & beverage$71443%

General payments by program year

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	1	$946
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$192
AbbVie	7	$152
Stryker	2	$150
Zimmer Biomet	6	$146
PBG Puerto Rico LLC	2	$41
Johnson And Johnson International	2	$33

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.

Geminus$946
Align$946
IJS$946
Implate$946
Reblozyl$114

How this compares

$1,660 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 94 orthopaedic surgery providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$47,792

Medicare patients

Services billed

414

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	156	$14,187
EliquisApixaban	28	$8,452
Celecoxib	329	$7,762
Naproxen Sodium	171	$7,140
Etodolac ErEtodolac	50	$5,468
Diclofenac Sodium	342	$5,231
Dexamethasone	328	$5,058
Diclofenac Epolamine	18	$4,903
Duloxetine Hcl	388	$4,339
MupirocinMupirocin Calcium	16	$4,319
Nabumetone	172	$4,267
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	335	$3,928
Tizanidine Hcl	603	$3,459
Piroxicam	73	$2,864
Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen	142	$2,171

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Mayaguez

Jose Perez LopezMayaguez$12K
Carlos Perez LopezMayaguez$2K
Ashwin DeshmukhMayaguez$597
Alberto Rivera RosadoSanturce$197K
Andres Muniz MartinezCayey$56K
David Beaton ComuladaSan Juan$29K
John KaganHumacao$27K
Juan Santiago TorresHatillo$24K
Ariel Davila-ParrillaSan Juan$21K
Francisco Lopez-GonzalezSan Juan$16K

See the full list for Puerto Rico →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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