Has Rocio Cardona, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,989 in general payments to Rocio Cardona, MD across 206 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Rocio Cardona, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Rocio Cardona, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Rocio Cardona, MD

Dermatology · Carolina, PRNPI 1003261280

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.8% of the total across 206 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 49.3% of the total.

$6,989in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 206 payments — averaging $33.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Sanofi$561
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$492
Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch$340
PBG Puerto Rico LLC$196
plus $878 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$6,55994%
Education$4306%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	107	$3,443
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	29	$1,078
Sanofi	12	$561
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	17	$492
Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch	13	$340
PBG Puerto Rico LLC	10	$196
Genentech USA, Inc.	3	$156
Pfizer	2	$134
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$125
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	1	$124
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$100
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$92
Novartis	4	$64
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$45
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$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.

Skyrizi$377
Rinvoq$375
DUPIXENT$369
Tremfya$367
Erivedge$125
Sotyktu$125
BOTOX$117
TALTZ$100

How this compares

$6,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 108 dermatology providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$8,035

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Dupixent PenDupilumab	28	$106,615
Betamethasone Valerate	471	$20,703
Ketoconazole	756	$20,267
Ciclopirox	251	$8,857
Ammonium Lactate	232	$6,919
Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc	97	$6,047
Clobetasol Propionate	51	$4,178
Desonide	67	$2,961
Metronidazole	46	$2,816
Triamcinolone Acetonide	294	$2,737
Tacrolimus	23	$1,826
Mometasone Furoate	62	$1,493
Mupirocin	111	$1,147
Gentamicin Sulfate	20	$1,110
Clindamycin Phosphate	36	$1,060

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Eneida de la TorreBayamon$39K
Samuel SanchezCaguas$25K
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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.

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