RxDoctor Payments Data

Rene Rocha Rodriguez, MD

Gastroenterology · Arecibo, PRNPI 1235236670

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,298 of the $6,098 with a category attached, or 86.9%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 40.5% of the total.

$6,098in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 124 payments — averaging $49.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Medtronic$755
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$437
  • Olympus Latin America, Inc.$213
  • Boston Scientific$198
  • plus $799 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$80013%
  • Food & beverage$5,29887%

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
AbbVie61$2,473
Johnson & Johnson30$1,222
Medtronic7$755
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.4$437
Olympus Latin America, Inc.2$213
Boston Scientific2$198
Gilead4$170
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals1$132
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC1$123
Abbott1$97
Merck3$63
KCI USA, Inc.1$49
Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch1$49
PBG Puerto Rico LLC2$34
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC1$22
Sanofi1$22
Smith+Nephew1$21
Amgen1$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

$6,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 198 gastroenterology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$5,135
Medicare patients
24
Services billed
49

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab27$190,572
XifaxanRifaximin13$38,417
SuprepSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates238$28,020
Sucralfate114$24,057
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase11$8,216
Famotidine1,154$7,038
Pantoprazole Sodium927$6,675
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates76$6,426
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf31$5,208
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)35$2,399
Ursodiol34$2,307
Azathioprine76$1,030
Entecavir14$823
Propranolol Hcl54$649
Chlordiazepoxide-ClidiniumChlordiazepoxide/Clidinium Br13$419

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
AbbVieCreon$2,473$8,21611 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 80th percentile of 198 gastroenterology providers in Puerto Rico.

Other gastroenterology in Arecibo

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