RxDoctor Payments Data

Roberto Velazquez Correa, MD

Internal Medicine · Caguas, PRNPI 1215162656

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,242in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $25.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$2K
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$781
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$598
  • Johnson & Johnson$314
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$223
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$202
  • plus $497 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,17098%
  • Education$722%

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.

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

$4,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,089
Medicare patients
13
Services billed
45

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol288$325,782
XareltoRivaroxaban267$236,091
JardianceEmpagliflozin121$188,979
TrulicityDulaglutide96$109,575
EnbrelEtanercept13$95,170
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium683$74,242
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan65$73,651
EliquisApixaban81$70,919
Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide51$51,042
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter58$38,746
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog209$32,533
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl27$29,110
SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl28$24,972
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate19$22,433
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide33$19,641

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta, Symbicort$1,627$340,559328 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Spiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat$48$241,939200 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$314$236,091267 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Humalog$53$127,978186 claims
AmgenEnbrel$20$95,17013 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33, Lantus$598$83,575260 claims
AbbVieSynthroid, Lumigan$125$82,425710 claims
MerckJanumet, Januvia, Janumet Xr$97$67,08657 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$22$11,60312 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 90th percentile of 1,043 internal medicine providers in Puerto Rico.

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