Surgery of the Hand in Puerto Rico
8 providers, $21,526 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 surgery of the hand clinicians in Puerto Rico
Across 6 surgery of the hand clinicians in Puerto Rico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $90,362 in total — an average of $15,060 each, of which $14,962 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
- 1Gustavo Bello RojasSan German$11,797
- 2Hiram SolerHato Rey$3,766
- 3Ian Marrero AmadeoSan Juan$2,976
- 4Manuel MedinaArecibo$1,800
- 5Sonny Moretta CabreraMayaguez$541
- 6Ian Soto LopezCaguas$341
- 7Eduardo Rodriguez VazquezBayamon$262
- 8Jan ZegarraGuaynabo$43