Who Paid My Doc
Luis Ruiz Rivera
Ponce, PR Medical Doctor
NPI 1518066216 CMS profile 1305139
2614 Calle Mayor, Ponce, PR 00717
General payments
$81,493
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$1,382
Through program year 2025, Luis Ruiz Rivera of Ponce, PR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $81,493 across 236 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,382 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.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $516 | 21 | |
| 2024 | General | $191 | 8 | |
| 2023 | General | $47 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $3,894 | 26 | |
| 2021 | General | $12,590 | 27 | |
| 2020 | General | $15,184 | 23 | |
| 2019 | General | $49,070 | 129 |
Beside peers
- Luis Ruiz Rivera
- Puerto Rico median
- Middle half of Puerto Rico
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Luis Ruiz Rivera were reported at $516. Among 6,407 Puerto Rico profiles paid that year, the median was $138 and the middle half received between $51 and $379.
Show as a table
| Year | Luis Ruiz Rivera | Puerto Rico median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $49,070 | $136 | $56–$387 | $163 |
| 2020 | $15,184 | $80 | $35–$213 | $114 |
| 2021 | $12,590 | $110 | $37–$313 | $132 |
| 2022 | $3,894 | $131 | $52–$362 | $149 |
| 2023 | $47 | $127 | $50–$377 | $160 |
| 2024 | $191 | $141 | $56–$375 | $164 |
| 2025 | $516 | $138 | $51–$379 | $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 · 94 drugsPart D claims
6,409
Drug cost
$1,429,764
Branded share of claims
52.3%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janumet Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | Brand | 254 | $258,547 | |
| Mounjaro Tirzepatide | Brand | 204 | $221,437 | |
| Synthroid Levothyroxine Sodium | Brand | 1,563 | $175,723 | |
| Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate | Brand | 129 | $146,857 | |
| Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol | Brand | 84 | $96,859 | |
| Ozempic Semaglutide | Brand | 67 | $71,283 | |
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 45 | $56,874 | |
| Trulicity Dulaglutide | Brand | 51 | $51,662 | |
| Xigduo Xr Dapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin | Brand | 37 | $43,349 | |
| Janumet Xr Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | Brand | 33 | $37,941 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 94 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 1,049 Part D prescribers listed as Specialist; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOUNJARO |
|
$56 | 204 | — |
| Kerendia |
|
$30 | 27 | — |
| RYBELSUS |
|
$28 | — | — |
| Ozempic |
|
$28 | 67 | — |
| ZEPBOUND |
|
$24 | — | — |
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.
Records
236 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.
Related records
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.