Santiago Tzuc
Family · McAllen, TXNPI 1609266733
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $19.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$302
- Amgen$293
- Novo Nordisk$244
- Novartis$119
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$100
- Bayer$97
- plus $641 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,78299%
- Education$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $302 |
| Amgen | 14 | $293 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $244 |
| Novartis | 5 | $119 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Bayer | 4 | $97 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $87 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $85 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $83 |
| GSK | 3 | $68 |
| Abbott | 3 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $53 |
| Merck | 2 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $30 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$1,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 176 | $211,245 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 144 | $151,931 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 162 | $138,838 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 53 | $67,589 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 46 | $53,396 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 51 | $42,422 |
| EliquisApixaban | 31 | $34,666 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 28 | $26,985 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 25 | $24,563 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 17 | $20,010 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 24 | $17,402 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 24 | $15,003 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 18 | $14,062 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 23 | $11,758 |
| Icosapent Ethyl | 33 | $9,583 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $244 | $264,641222 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $87 | $176,494169 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $85 | $138,838162 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $302 | $87,59970 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $38 | $26,98528 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess | $30 | $17,40224 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $68 | $15,00324 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $119 | $14,06218 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $18 | $7,85314 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 75th percentile of 15,456 family providers in Texas.
Other family in McAllen
- April LopezMcAllen$417K
- Lashonda CraneHouston$3.4M
- David WeirDallas$959K
- Luba YammineHouston$479K
- Robin BeachHouston$428K
- Nirupama JeromeAustin$418K
- Linda MercadoHouston$211K
- Sarah AguilarHouston$199K
- Sie ThomasDallas$197K
- Anna CastroSan Antonio$184K
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.