Who Paid My Doc
Hector Vargas Soto
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Mayaguez, PR Medical Doctor
NPI 1467488650 CMS profile 156477
770 Ave Hostos Ste 103, Policlinica Bella Vista, Mayaguez, PR 00682
General payments
$72,324
Research payments
$500
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Hector Vargas Soto of Mayaguez, PR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $72,324 across 34 general payments and $500 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 73rd percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
8 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $48 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $112 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,429 | 8 | |
| 2022 | General | $255 | 2 | |
| 2021 | General | $205 | 4 | |
| 2020 | General | $24,100 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $46,176 | 14 | |
| 2019 | Research | $500 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Hector Vargas Soto
- Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
- Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Hector Vargas Soto were reported at $48. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.
Show as a table
| Year | Hector Vargas Soto | Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $46,176 | $2,106 | $337–$18,608 | $163 |
| 2020 | $24,100 | $1,213 | $156–$15,082 | $114 |
| 2021 | $205 | $1,834 | $271–$15,617 | $132 |
| 2022 | $255 | $2,015 | $320–$17,036 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,429 | $1,925 | $336–$14,599 | $160 |
| 2024 | $112 | $2,110 | $341–$12,483 | $164 |
| 2025 | $48 | $2,061 | $347–$14,651 | $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 · 17 drugsPart D claims
2,107
Drug cost
$19,087
Branded share of claims
20.9%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etodolac | Generic | 104 | $2,887 | |
| Alendronate Sodium | Generic | 376 | $2,081 | |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav | Brand | 126 | $2,015 | |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 158 | $2,000 | |
| Tramadol Hcl-Acetaminophen Tramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 128 | $1,707 | |
| Gabapentin | Generic | 328 | $1,677 | |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | Generic | 257 | $1,596 | |
| Baclofen | Generic | 193 | $1,332 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 103 | $967 | |
| Amoxicillin | Generic | 155 | $874 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 17 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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 14 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$21,551
Medicare patients
30
Services billed
76
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Diabetes | 70% | |
| Arthritis | 67% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 43% | |
| Heart failure | 37% |
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.
Records
35 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.