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Covered recipient · General Payments record

LUIS M BENALCAZAR-PUGA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine

NPI
1801878269
CMS profile
172421
Location
ELIZABETH, NJ

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$14,048.79

  • Reported across 1,041 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$867.70

57 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
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Related groups: Internal Medicine NJ All categories

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $867.70 57

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Acerta Pharma LLC $254.31 14
ABBVIE INC. $184.14 17
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $124.73 8
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $45.54 3
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $43.37 3
PFIZER INC. $33.56 2
Exact Sciences Corporation $26.83 1
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $22.59 1
Ardelyx, Inc. $21.19 1
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $18.70 1
AIMMUNE THERAPEUTICS, INC. $17.32 1
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $17.00 1
Amgen Inc. $16.20 1
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $14.65 1
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION $14.04 1
Novo Nordisk AS $13.53 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $3,324.40 265
PY2019 $3,184.21 262
PY2020 $981.05 72
PY2021 $1,750.70 126
PY2022 $2,035.71 138
PY2023 $1,905.02 121
PY2024 $867.70 57

Payment records · PY2024 (57)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $16.29 01/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305528 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $19.11 03/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305530 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $3.50 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305532 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $12.44 03/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305534 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $11.10 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305536 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $11.31 05/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305538 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $14.16 05/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305540 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $9.28 06/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305542 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $15.45 06/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305544 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $14.34 07/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305546 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $10.25 07/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305548 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $0.76 07/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305550 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $9.15 07/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305552 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $1.98 07/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305554 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $15.17 08/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305556 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $10.53 09/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305558 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $9.32 10/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103305560 CMS
AIMMUNE THERAPEUTICS, INC. $17.32 07/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146967263 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.20 04/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117201465 CMS
Ardelyx, Inc. $21.19 02/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146671247 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.51 01/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105870025 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.00 02/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104751112 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $13.77 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104785174 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.00 02/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105800207 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.26 03/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105503520 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $50.63 03/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104710905 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $13.07 03/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104768656 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.05 05/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105745076 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.00 05/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104557878 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.80 06/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104733015 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.80 07/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104566350 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.30 08/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104617502 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.19 08/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104512758 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.93 11/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105784618 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $14.38 03/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118161580 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $13.82 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118161578 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $15.17 08/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118161582 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $26.83 06/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114589500 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $15.90 03/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116198478 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $15.89 05/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116493100 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $13.75 08/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116569221 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $22.59 03/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1078089848 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $17.00 05/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141877579 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $14.04 10/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086656141 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $13.53 03/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1097603945 CMS
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $18.70 03/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1118860637 CMS
PFIZER INC. $16.73 04/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131260715 CMS
PFIZER INC. $16.83 05/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131464696 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15.51 01/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153469805 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $14.93 01/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153616532 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15.99 02/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153476132 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $16.76 02/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153435729 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15.89 05/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153663940 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15.25 08/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153445941 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $14.69 10/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153514118 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $15.71 10/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153434653 CMS
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $14.65 11/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144603398 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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