Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Hector Vazquez Torres

General Practice Ponce, PR Medical Doctor

NPI 1992305197 CMS profile 8793851

Urb Valle Alto, 1146 Calle Cordillera, Ponce, PR 00730

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General payments

$1,600

82 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Hector Vazquez Torres of Ponce, PR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,600 across 82 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 85th percentile of General Practice profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $332 18
2024 General $207 11
2023 General $549 26
2022 General $493 26
2021 General $19 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Hector Vazquez Torres
  • General Practice median
  • Middle half of General Practice
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Hector Vazquez Torres were reported at $332. Among 4,774 General Practice profiles paid that year, the median was $106 and the middle half received between $35 and $292.

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Year Hector Vazquez Torres General Practice median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $107 $37–$285 $163
2020 $0 $75 $25–$213 $114
2021 $19 $93 $30–$272 $132
2022 $493 $103 $36–$279 $149
2023 $549 $106 $34–$276 $160
2024 $207 $114 $39–$290 $164
2025 $332 $106 $35–$292 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $261 12 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $218 13 payments
  3. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $201 6 payments
  4. Novo Nordisk Inc $164 9 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $157 9 payments
  6. Lilly USA, LLC $137 8 payments
  7. Exact Sciences Corporation $105 5 payments
  8. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $79 4 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $62 4 payments
  10. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $51 3 payments
  11. Other $164 9 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,600 82 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Kerendia $261 12 payments
  2. XARELTO $201 6 payments
  3. RYBELSUS $144 8 payments
  4. Ozempic $144 8 payments
  5. ELIQUIS $133 8 payments
  6. NURTEC ODT $133 8 payments
  7. BREZTRI $106 6 payments
  8. Cologuard Collection Kit $105 5 payments
  9. JARDIANCE $90 5 payments
  10. FARXIGA $65 4 payments
  11. Other $611 36 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 · 127 drugs

Part D claims

8,021

Median for General Practice: 1,105

Drug cost

$712,198

Median for General Practice: $48,734

Branded share of claims

14.7%

Median for General Practice: 17.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 112 $140,446
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 76 $90,772
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 75 $86,954
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 45 $65,710
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 39 $57,360
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 43 $51,824
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 38 $43,442
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 17 $22,414
Vascepa Icosapent Ethyl Brand 24 $17,301
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 13 $14,568

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 127 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 7,210 Part D prescribers listed as General Practice; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 35 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$11,511

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

39

Average age 74

Services billed

192

22 women, 17 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%
Arthritis 54%
Heart failure 51%
Diabetes 44%
Chronic kidney disease 41%
Depression 38%
Ischemic heart disease 33%

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 9 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
REXULTI
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $40
$40 — —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $33
$33 43 —
RYBELSUS
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $22
$22 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $22
$22 38 —
ELIQUIS
  • PFIZER INC. $16
$16 76 —

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

82 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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