RxDoctor Payments Data

Wilberto Guzman Alvarado, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Rio Piedras, PRNPI 1730196247

Payments from drug & device makers

$724in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $20.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$169
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$150
  • PBG Puerto Rico LLC$124
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$122
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$62
  • Abbott$25
  • plus $72 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$724100%

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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25

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.

How this compares

$724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$42,089
Medicare patients
108
Services billed
521

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
EliquisApixaban135$132,735
XareltoRivaroxaban47$42,377
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol45$38,095
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan16$20,319
Metoprolol Succinate613$14,349
Losartan Potassium543$7,480
Rosuvastatin Calcium398$6,603
Atorvastatin Calcium459$5,689
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate312$5,548
Candesartan Cilexetil41$4,926
Nitroglycerin PatchNitroglycerin75$4,275
Losartan-HydrochlorothiazideLosartan/Hydrochlorothiazide161$3,883
Amlodipine Besylate535$3,760
Valsartan69$3,720
Irbesartan100$3,683

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$169$42,37747 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$15$38,09545 claims
NovartisEntresto$22$20,31916 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 20th percentile of 267 cardiovascular disease providers in Puerto Rico.

Other cardiovascular disease in Rio Piedras

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