Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2020–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Erica Otero Cardenas

Cardiovascular Disease Manati, PR Medical Doctor

NPI 1619353869 CMS profile 7710927

135 Calle Yuisa, First Floor, Suite 6, Manati, PR 00674

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General payments

$9,297

149 records reported · program years 2020–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2020–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Erica Otero Cardenas of Manati, PR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $9,297 across 149 general payments 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 80th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $820 10
2024 General $530 12
2023 General $1,300 30
2022 General $4,607 63
2021 General $1,051 23
2020 General $989 11

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Erica Otero Cardenas
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Erica Otero Cardenas were reported at $820. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Erica Otero Cardenas Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $989 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $1,051 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $4,607 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $1,300 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $530 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $820 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Abbott Laboratories $3,231 35 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,918 22 payments
  3. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $1,193 34 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $643 6 payments
  5. Medtronic, Inc. $611 5 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $510 13 payments
  7. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $270 8 payments
  8. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $160 5 payments
  9. Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc. $115 1 payment
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $102 1 payment
  11. Other $543 19 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,993 140 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $1,808 7 payments
  3. Education $496 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. ENSITE PRECISION $1,685 16 payments
  2. LifeVest $1,193 34 payments
  3. ASSURITY $922 4 payments
  4. General - Tachy $625 5 payments
  5. Repatha $518 5 payments
  6. General - Therapies Therapies $395 2 payments
  7. CAMZYOS $314 8 payments
  8. JARDIANCE $203 5 payments
  9. General - Therapies General - Therapies_CRM $201 3 payments
  10. ELIQUIS $185 4 payments
  11. Other $2,738 57 payments

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 · 20 drugs

Part D claims

733

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$58,353

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

13.1%

Median for Cardiology: 25.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 50 $36,492
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 16 $13,419
Synthroid Levothyroxine Sodium Brand 14 $1,357
Metoprolol Succinate Generic 94 $1,064
Atorvastatin Calcium Generic 107 $962
Amiodarone Hcl Generic 13 $843
Losartan Potassium Generic 72 $608
Rosuvastatin Calcium Generic 52 $578
Amlodipine Besylate Generic 89 $457
Enalapril Maleate Generic 15 $444

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 20 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 18,782 Part D prescribers listed as Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 14 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$15,609

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

57

Average age 77

Services billed

238

31 women, 26 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Diabetes 54%
Arthritis 44%
Ischemic heart disease 40%
Chronic kidney disease 39%
Heart failure 37%
Cancer 23%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 6 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ELIQUIS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $125
$125 50 —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $26
$26 16 —
CAMZYOS
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $25
$25 — —
XARELTO
  • Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $25
$25 — —
VYNDAQEL
  • PBG PUERTO RICO LLC $21
$21 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

149 reported

Every 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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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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