Who Paid My Doc
Caridad Vargas
Geriatric Medicine Caguas, PR Medical Doctor
NPI 1356392708 CMS profile 885640
Hima Plaza I, Suite 501, Caguas, PR 00725
General payments
$70
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Caridad Vargas of Caguas, PR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $70 across 1 general payment and $0 in research payments paid to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.
General payments for this record sit in the 30th percentile of Geriatric Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
1 row| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $70 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Caridad Vargas
- Geriatric Medicine median
- Middle half of Geriatric Medicine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Caridad Vargas were reported at $70. Among 512 Geriatric Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $120 and the middle half received between $37 and $350.
Show as a table
| Year | Caridad Vargas | Geriatric Medicine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $96 | $28–$339 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $99 | $28–$262 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $94 | $27–$318 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $103 | $34–$338 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $109 | $39–$320 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $125 | $36–$371 | $164 |
| 2025 | $70 | $120 | $37–$350 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 93 drugsPart D claims
4,591
Drug cost
$176,747
Branded share of claims
18.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate | Brand | 20 | $29,464 | |
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 26 | $18,087 | |
| Synthroid Levothyroxine Sodium | Brand | 269 | $15,751 | |
| Xarelto Rivaroxaban | Brand | 19 | $11,002 | |
| Linzess Linaclotide | Brand | 13 | $10,319 | |
| Spiriva Respimat Tiotropium Bromide | Brand | 16 | $8,595 | |
| Synjardy Empagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | Brand | 13 | $8,042 | |
| Tradjenta Linagliptin | Brand | 12 | $6,374 | |
| Breo Ellipta Fluticasone/Vilanterol | Brand | 13 | $5,400 | |
| Albuterol Sulfate Hfa Albuterol Sulfate | Brand | 112 | $4,938 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 93 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 105,120 Part D prescribers listed as Family Practice; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
1 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.