Addiction Medicine in Puerto Rico
12 providers, $7,028 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays addiction medicine clinicians in Puerto Rico
Across 2 addiction medicine clinicians in Puerto Rico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $27,403 in total — an average of $13,701 each, of which $13,701 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Henry Nieves DiazCaguas$1,908
- 2Nicolas Hernandez SanabriaSan Juan$1,655
- 3Armando FortunoArecibo$1,100
- 4Andres Calvo DiazBayamon$977
- 5Angelica Fuentes ArmestoSan Juan$430
- 6Luis Valle PenaAguadilla$386
- 7Liliana Rivera-NegronSan Juan$207
- 8Laura CorominasSan Juan$181
- 9Manuel DiazBarranquita$95
- 10Roberto GranaGuaynabo$51
- 11Ramon ParrillaCidra$19
- 12Angel Gonzalez-CarrasquilloGuaynabo$18