Ramon Sotomayor, MD
Surgery · Caguas, PRNPI 1619091162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,003 of the $3,228 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 32.0% of the total.
Across 49 payments — averaging $65.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries$369
- Johnson & Johnson$354
- Johnson And Johnson International$350
- Davol Inc.$236
- Smith+Nephew$164
- plus $723 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,22538%
- Food & beverage$2,00362%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 5 | $1,032 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 2 | $369 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $354 |
| Johnson And Johnson International | 6 | $350 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $236 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $164 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $143 |
| Olympus Latin America, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $110 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $95 |
| Stryker | 2 | $95 |
| Merck | 2 | $89 |
| Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch | 2 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
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.
- PHASIX$473
- Iodosorb Ointment 40g USA$137
- Olympus$121
- ETHICON$117
- DUPIXENT$110
- Sonicision$110
How this compares
$3,228 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 202 surgery providers in Puerto Rico.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 44 | $274 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Caguas
- Bolivar ArboledaCaguas$13K
- Luis GuaspMayaguez$148K
- Fernando Rivera CruzSan Juan$88K
- Laura Rodriguez RiveraPonce$73K
- Jorge Pelet MejiasSan Juan$50K
- Miguel Baez StellaBayamon$48K
- Jose PaganFajardo$39K
- Ariel BermudezBayamon$18K
- Emilio Perez de LeonBayamon$17K
- Adel Gonzalez MontalvoRio Piedras$16K
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.