RxDoctor Payments Data

Pedro Tort Saade, MD

Sports Medicine · Guaynabo, PRNPI 1245224278

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (38.8%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Linvatec Corporation at 24.7% of the total. Among sports medicine 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.

$40,553in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 164 payments — averaging $247.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Linvatec Corporation$10K
  • Encore Medical, LP$8K
  • Exactech, Inc.$8K
  • Smith+Nephew$3K
  • Arthrex$3K
  • Zimmer Biomet$3K
  • plus $5K from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7,78019%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$9,20023%
  • Travel & lodging$15,72239%
  • Food & beverage$7,05117%
  • Education$8002%

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
Linvatec Corporation5$9,998
Encore Medical, LP16$7,647
Exactech, Inc.5$7,565
Smith+Nephew17$3,403
Arthrex36$3,341
Zimmer Biomet23$3,111
Microport Orthopedics Inc19$1,638
RMC Orthopedic & Surgical, Inc.8$1,515
Johnson And Johnson International11$735
Medacta USA, Inc.3$607
Johnson & Johnson9$384
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.3$154
KCI USA, Inc.1$125
Stryker1$112
Boston Scientific1$110
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.4$72
PBG Puerto Rico LLC2$36

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

$40,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 27 sports medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$14,788
Medicare patients
40
Services billed
81

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
XareltoRivaroxaban40$10,353
MupirocinMupirocin Calcium36$8,215
Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen106$1,562
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen117$1,432
Diclofenac Sodium41$851
Mupirocin93$843
Triamcinolone Acetonide78$818
Ondansetron Hcl129$741
Dexamethasone132$621
Famotidine203$621
Nabumetone169$610
Gabapentin111$440
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim110$437
Ciprofloxacin Hcl26$294
Diclofenac Potassium23$280

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$384$10,35340 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 27 sports medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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