Surgical Critical Care in Puerto Rico
9 providers, $53,165 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 surgical critical care clinicians in Puerto Rico
Across 3 surgical critical care clinicians in Puerto Rico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $52,039 in total — an average of $17,346 each, of which $17,346 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
- 1Guillermo BolanosPonce$39,330
- 2Pablo Rodriguez-OrtizRio Piedras$5,833
- 3Julio Peguero RiveraSanta Isabel$3,231
- 4Marcos Salgado-CrespoSan Juan$3,140
- 5Nydia de SotoSan Juan$1,003
- 6Mariluz Rivera HernandezSan Juan$428
- 7Victor Aquino JoseGuayama$127
- 8Julio Lopez-MaldonadoSan Juan$48
- 9Yvonne Baerga VarelaSan Juan$26