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

Ruel Garcia

Gastroenterology San Jose, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1790789022 CMS profile 263352

2340 Montpelier Dr, Ste A, San Jose, CA 95116

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General payments

$21,835

240 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, Ruel Garcia of San Jose, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $21,835 across 240 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 89th percentile of Gastroenterology 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 $2,724 50
2024 General $686 41
2023 General $526 27
2022 General $507 24
2021 General $10,203 47
2020 General $6,571 13
2019 General $618 38

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ruel Garcia
  • Gastroenterology median
  • Middle half of Gastroenterology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ruel Garcia were reported at $2,724. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.

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Year Ruel Garcia Gastroenterology median Middle half National median
2019 $618 $417 $126–$1,100 $163
2020 $6,571 $224 $74–$624 $114
2021 $10,203 $352 $106–$1,054 $132
2022 $507 $448 $129–$1,270 $149
2023 $526 $533 $150–$1,390 $160
2024 $686 $605 $160–$1,606 $164
2025 $2,724 $639 $167–$1,700 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CapsoVision, Inc. $15,704 3 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,645 13 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $1,584 92 payments
  4. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $892 49 payments
  5. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $539 27 payments
  6. 3-D Matrix, Inc. $274 1 payment
  7. Shionogi Inc $213 9 payments
  8. Braintree Laboratories, Inc. $158 8 payments
  9. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $136 6 payments
  10. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $94 5 payments
  11. Other $595 27 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $15,704 3 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $5,177 228 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $856 5 payments
  4. Education $99 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. CapsoCam Colon $9,404 2 payments
  2. SpyGlass $1,147 8 payments
  3. XIFAXAN $471 23 payments
  4. MAVYRET $426 21 payments
  5. RINVOQ $415 21 payments
  6. CREON $324 23 payments
  7. LINZESS $289 24 payments
  8. HUMIRA $267 16 payments
  9. Mulpleta $213 9 payments
  10. OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System $210 2 payments
  11. Other $1,859 82 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 · 8 drugs

Part D claims

173

Median for Gastroenterology: 569

Drug cost

$25,582

Median for Gastroenterology: $104,976

Branded share of claims

53.2%

Median for Gastroenterology: 31.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Vemlidy Tenofovir Alafenamide Brand 13 $18,511
Entecavir Generic 17 $5,141
Gavilyte-G Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 45 $597
Omeprazole Generic 34 $586
Peg 3350-Electrolyte Sodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg Brand 16 $294
Peg-3350 And Electrolytes Peg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl Brand 18 $235
Spironolactone Generic 18 $109
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 12 $108

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 14,294 Part D prescribers listed as Gastroenterology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 36 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$61,519

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

192

Average age 72

Services billed

763

107 women, 85 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 42%
Arthritis 35%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Osteoporosis 22%
Atrial fibrillation 16%
Depression 16%

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 14 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
LINZESS
  • AbbVie, Inc. $57
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $19
$76 — —
MAVYRET
  • AbbVie, Inc. $75
$75 — —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $56
$56 — —
CREON
  • AbbVie, Inc. $51
$51 — —
SKYRIZI
  • AbbVie, Inc. $39
$39 — —

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

240 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.

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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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