Who Paid My Doc
Linda Mercado
Physician Assistant Hidalgo, TX Physician Assistant
NPI 1033739883 CMS profile 10728885
300 S 2Nd St, Ste 101, Hidalgo, TX 78557
General payments
$36,862
Research payments
$1,006
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$41,290
Through program year 2025, Linda Mercado of Hidalgo, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $36,862 across 340 general payments and $1,006 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $41,290 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Physician Assistant 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 | $15,285 | 77 | |
| 2024 | General | $17,290 | 69 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,708 | 68 | |
| 2023 | Research | $1,006 | 9 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,032 | 52 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,547 | 74 |
Beside peers
- Linda Mercado
- Physician Assistant median
- Middle half of Physician Assistant
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Linda Mercado were reported at $15,285. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.
Show as a table
| Year | Linda Mercado | Physician Assistant median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $34 | $17–$122 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $33 | $16–$78 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,547 | $132 | $37–$438 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,032 | $155 | $48–$522 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,708 | $167 | $52–$557 | $160 |
| 2024 | $17,290 | $178 | $55–$600 | $164 |
| 2025 | $15,285 | $184 | $57–$620 | $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 · 19 drugsPart D claims
704
Drug cost
$2,290,141
Branded share of claims
89.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | Brand | 146 | $561,036 | |
| Rukobia Fostemsavir Tromethamine | Brand | 36 | $310,133 | |
| Symtuza Darunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf | Brand | 65 | $301,199 | |
| Juluca Dolutegravir/Rilpivirine | Brand | 76 | $261,793 | |
| Dovato Dolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine | Brand | 85 | $235,818 | |
| Egrifta Sv Tesamorelin Acetate | Brand | 28 | $197,777 | |
| Cabenuva Cabotegravir/Rilpivirine | Brand | 27 | $169,305 | |
| Tivicay Dolutegravir Sodium | Brand | 53 | $113,273 | |
| Prezcobix Darunavir/Cobicistat | Brand | 24 | $56,227 | |
| Triumeq Abacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi | Brand | 13 | $48,836 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 19 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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 10 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Descovy |
|
$7,685 | 16 | — |
| Biktarvy |
|
$3,457 | 146 | — |
| APRETUDE |
|
$3,126 | — | — |
| CABENUVA |
|
$2,250 | 27 | — |
| DOVATO |
|
$387 | 85 | — |
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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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.