Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Rafael Lastra

Cardiovascular Disease San Juan, PR Medical Doctor

NPI 1477550150 CMS profile 112219

735 Ave Ponce De Leon, Ste 516, San Juan, PR 00917

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General payments

$5,079

243 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Rafael Lastra of San Juan, PR is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,079 across 243 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 69th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $691 28
2024 General $543 25
2023 General $657 28
2022 General $607 27
2021 General $848 38
2020 General $655 32
2019 General $1,078 65

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Rafael Lastra were reported at $691. 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 Rafael Lastra Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $1,078 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $655 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $848 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $607 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $657 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $543 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $691 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. PBG Puerto Rico LLC $829 43 payments
  2. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $790 35 payments
  3. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $537 25 payments
  4. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $457 19 payments
  5. Amgen Inc. $456 24 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $435 24 payments
  7. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $269 5 payments
  8. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $231 12 payments
  9. ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $190 10 payments
  10. Boston Scientific Corporation $185 8 payments
  11. Other $700 38 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,997 239 payments
  2. Education $82 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XARELTO $735 32 payments
  2. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular;Metabolic Disease $570 29 payments
  3. JARDIANCE $435 21 payments
  4. Repatha $396 21 payments
  5. ELIQUIS Cardiovascular $357 15 payments
  6. VYNDAQEL $296 17 payments
  7. FARXIGA $256 14 payments
  8. LifeVest $190 10 payments
  9. Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve $140 2 payments
  10. INVOKANA $127 6 payments
  11. Other $2,011 99 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 · 99 drugs

Part D claims

13,430

Median for Cardiology: 2,533

Drug cost

$1,373,772

Median for Cardiology: $485,213

Branded share of claims

25.5%

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 405 $305,985
Vyndamax Tafamidis Brand 13 $285,218
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 202 $165,911
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 200 $134,494
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 179 $131,969
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 38 $27,721
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 36 $27,324
Synthroid Levothyroxine Sodium Brand 314 $23,821
Multaq Dronedarone Hcl Brand 20 $23,558
Janumet Xr Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl Brand 31 $23,415

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 99 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 · 23 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$60,009

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

308

Average age 79

Services billed

1,133

175 women, 133 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 66%
Arthritis 44%
Ischemic heart disease 39%
Chronic kidney disease 38%
Heart failure 32%
Atrial fibrillation 24%
Osteoporosis 20%

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 12 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
  • PBG PUERTO RICO LLC $67
  • E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $25
$92 405 —
LOKELMA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $60
$60 — —
Repatha
  • Amgen Inc. $60
$60 — —
VYNDAQEL
  • PBG PUERTO RICO LLC $55
$55 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $28
$28 38 —

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

243 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.

Other Cardiovascular Disease in Puerto Rico

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What this means

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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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