Yarret Robles Torres
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (38.6%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,422 and has fallen 78.0% since, to $753 in 2025.
Across 42 payments — averaging $147.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Medtronic$703
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$535
- BD$356
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$195
- Stryker$78
- plus $239 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,39739%
- Food & beverage$1,81129%
- Education$2,00032%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $4,102 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $703 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $535 |
| BD | 6 | $356 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $195 |
| Stryker | 1 | $78 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $76 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $55 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,001
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Signia$403
- GIA$108
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$100
How this compares
$6,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 202 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 40 | $563 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $249 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $79 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Ponce
- Laura Rodriguez RiveraPonce$73K
- Marcia Alayon RosarioPonce$14K
- Hiram Soler-BernardiPonce$12K
- Francisco Rivera-PedrogoPonce$6K
- Abelardo Quinones MartinezPonce$5K
- Ashla Gaibi RodriguezPonce$3K
- Hector Lopez GonzalezPonce$3K
- Angel RomeroPonce$3K
- Emanuel Mejias LafontainePonce$2K
- Juan Gonzalez CruzPonce$2K
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.