RxDoctor Payments Data

Pedro Kareh Cordero, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Caguas, PRNPI 1992781520

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,759in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 76 payments — averaging $49.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Novo Nordisk$564
  • Lilly USA, LLC$350
  • Medtronic$326
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$242
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$204
  • plus $854 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,759100%

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
Johnson & Johnson18$1,218
Novo Nordisk5$564
Lilly USA, LLC11$350
Medtronic3$326
Boehringer Ingelheim7$242
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.5$204
AstraZeneca10$180
Amgen5$178
Boston Scientific1$125
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$100
PBG Puerto Rico LLC6$91
Abbott1$79
Novartis1$64
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)1$20
Merck1$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

$3,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$21,317
Medicare patients
78
Services billed
336

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
EliquisApixaban185$130,429
XareltoRivaroxaban59$44,951
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl50$37,746
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab44$25,868
JardianceEmpagliflozin31$23,840
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium324$20,284
Candesartan Cilexetil284$19,560
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate22$14,949
BrilintaTicagrelor28$12,364
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol19$11,307
Metoprolol Succinate784$8,777
Candesartan-HydrochlorothiazidCandesartan/Hydrochlorothiazid73$8,684
Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters143$8,587
Trijardy XrEmpaglifloz/Linaglip/Metformin11$7,948
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$6,638

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
MerckJanumet, Januvia$17$52,69472 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$1,218$44,95159 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Trijardy Xr, Tradjenta$242$38,17054 claims
AstraZenecaBrilinta, Farxiga$180$23,67047 claims
NovartisEntresto$64$6,63812 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 55th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

Other cardiovascular disease in Caguas

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