Ralph Dela Cruz
Family · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1972223964
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 45 payments — averaging $30.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Teleflex LLC$166
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$146
- AbbVie$134
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$130
- Novo Nordisk$122
- Blue Earth Diagnostics$98
- plus $595 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,32395%
- Education$685%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $166 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $146 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $134 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $130 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $122 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 4 | $98 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $80 |
| Bayer | 3 | $74 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $65 |
| Novartis | 2 | $45 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $43 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Merck | 1 | $27 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Accord Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Organon | 1 | $15 |
| Agiliti Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,941 family providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $207 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 13 | $153 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $63 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 13 | $62 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Des Plaines
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- Jamie BroganChicago$282K
- Ashley NoethGlen Carbon$271K
- Marita KametasChicago$259K
- Shammona ClarkChicago$247K
- Amanda McKeeMount Vernon$242K
- Brooke KennardBloomington$208K
- Amy BrownellElk Grove Village$202K
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.