Santa Merle, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Moca, PRNPI 1831300805
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,155 payments — averaging $72.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$34K
- AbbVie$15K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$12K
- Johnson & Johnson$5K
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Sanofi$3K
- plus $13K from 43 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$49,54459%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,2506%
- Travel & lodging$4,3975%
- Food & beverage$23,74228%
- Education$1,1051%
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.
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
$84,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 138 hematology & oncology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| IbrancePalbociclib | 128 | $2,033,314 |
| Lenalidomide | 130 | $1,849,906 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 70 | $1,114,997 |
| PomalystPomalidomide | 47 | $1,085,948 |
| InlytaAxitinib | 93 | $1,019,877 |
| KisqaliRibociclib Succinate | 62 | $993,108 |
| VerzenioAbemaciclib | 64 | $992,876 |
| LenvimaLenvatinib Mesylate | 38 | $893,285 |
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 60 | $857,148 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 76 | $704,420 |
| TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate | 35 | $590,564 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 54 | $507,450 |
| CabometyxCabozantinib S-Malate | 18 | $468,190 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 38 | $446,279 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 26 | $425,234 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerIbrance, Inlyta, Lorbrena, Bosulif, Retacrit | $246 | $3,655,336374 claims |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst, Sprycel | $12,231 | $1,790,368123 claims |
| NovartisKisqali, Promacta | $477 | $1,377,660103 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $13 | $1,114,99770 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio | $41 | $992,87664 claims |
| Eisai Inc.Lenvima | $208 | $893,28538 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $86 | $857,14860 claims |
| AstraZenecaTagrisso | $3,023 | $590,56435 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $328 | $507,45054 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta, Lupron Depot, Synthroid | $14,561 | $471,701126 claims |
| Exelixis Inc.Cabometyx | $147 | $468,19018 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada | $4,805 | $446,27938 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 138 hematology & oncology providers in Puerto Rico.
Other hematology & oncology in Moca
- Mirelis AcostaSan Juan$6.3M
- Hector Velez CortesPonce$3.1M
- Luis FloresSan Juan$2.3M
- Noridza Rivera RodriguezSan Juan$2.1M
- Adelba Torres-LopezSan Juan$1.9M
- Maria Garcia PallasCaguas$1.8M
- Karina Arocho-GonzalezHato Rey$1.1M
- Jose Lozada CostasSan Juan$934K
- Fernando CabanillasSan Juan$916K
- Mayra Rivera FigueroaRio Piedras$745K
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.