Pediatric Surgery in Puerto Rico
8 providers, $11,578 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 pediatric surgery clinicians in Puerto Rico
Across 1 pediatric surgery clinicians in Puerto Rico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,003 in total — an average of $6,003 each, of which $6,003 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
- 1Astrid Rocio Soares MedinaMayaguez$7,335
- 2Jorge ZequeiraSan Juan$1,885
- 3Anwar Abdul-HadiRio Piedras$974
- 4Carlos Alvarez-AllendeBayamon$460
- 5Victor Ortiz JustinianoBayamon$457
- 6Vidal Rosario LeonGuaynabo$305
- 7Aurelio SegundoSan Juan$125
- 8Humberto Lugo VicenteBayamon$37