Foot Surgery in Puerto Rico
13 providers, $15,934 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 foot surgery clinicians in Puerto Rico
Across 13 foot surgery clinicians in Puerto Rico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $159,278 in total — an average of $12,252 each, of which $12,252 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
- 1Andres Maymi GuerraMayaguez$7,106
- 2Michael Forte MalaveMayaguez$3,023
- 3Jaime Escalona ColmeneroSan Juan$1,868
- 4Gary DereshCarolina$1,483
- 5France LarinCaguas$1,483
- 6Lourdes RiveraBayamon$266
- 7Hilda Aviles VargasPonce$234
- 8Waleska DonatoMayaguez$162
- 9Luis Torres SerrantBayamon$89
- 10Guillermo CarrasquilloPonce$79
- 11Rafael OppenheimerIsabela$78
- 12Norberto Arbona FerrerCaguas$38
- 13Hazel Merced VargasSan Juan$26