Has Orlando Lopez de Victoria, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,649 in general payments to Orlando Lopez de Victoria, MD across 66 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 Orlando Lopez de Victoria, 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 Orlando Lopez de Victoria, 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.

Orlando Lopez de Victoria, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · San Juan, PRNPI 1568450492

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.6%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 28.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,856 and has fallen 80.7% since, to $358 in 2025.

$5,649in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $85.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$2K
Merck$2K
Medtronic$889
AstraZeneca$580
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$231
Zimmer Biomet$167
plus $701 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,50027%
Travel & lodging$1,29123%
Food & beverage$2,85851%

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

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
Abbott	14	$1,581
Merck	1	$1,500
Medtronic(2 entities)	20	$889
AstraZeneca	12	$580
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$231
Zimmer Biomet	3	$167
Edwards Lifesciences	3	$157
Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$123
Johnson & Johnson	2	$120
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$118
Boston Scientific	2	$83
Johnson And Johnson International	2	$42
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$29
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$29

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.

KEYTRUDA$1,500
Mitra Clip system$676
Cardiovascular- Research only$534
TAGRISSO$421
ENDURANT IIS$151
Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$129
Parietene$125
TRELSTAR$123
Micra$120
ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$118
IN.PACT Admiral$104
GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$102
Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$100
XARELTO$100

How this compares

$5,649 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 23 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$15,962

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Metoprolol Succinate	22	$508
Atorvastatin Calcium	28	$420
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	21	$403
Amiodarone Hcl	11	$349
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	20	$340
Levothyroxine Sodium	11	$228
Losartan Potassium	23	$220
Amlodipine Besylate	16	$83

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in San Juan

Juan HernandezSan Juan$24K
Elizardo Matos-CruzSan Juan$23K
Ivan GonzalezSan Juan$20K
Alex Cedeno RodriguezSan Juan$9K
Francisco Melendez QuinonesSan Juan$5K
Jose QuilichiniSan Juan$2K
Jose Colon PerezSan Juan$23
Javier Castillo-GraneroBayamon$113K
Alberto Maldonado MolinaPonce$84K
Ernesto SolteroPonce$8K

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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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