Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

MEILEEN R ORTEGA CRUZ

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Hematology & Oncology

NPI
1952367518
CMS profile
134496
Location
AGUADILLA, PR

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$6,274.97

  • Reported across 127 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2019

$374.88

16 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).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $374.88 16

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $5,900.09 111
PY2019 $374.88 16

Payment records · PY2019 (16)

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

Program year 2019 2018 Record-level detail is published for PY2019; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
AbbVie, Inc. $23.00 01/15/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 648231319 CMS
AbbVie, Inc. $18.33 03/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 648231321 CMS
Amgen Inc. $25.20 01/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662749980 CMS
Amgen Inc. $13.67 04/17/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662749975 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.40 01/10/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685682809 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.83 01/22/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685313957 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.28 04/10/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685828089 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $20.00 01/16/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 651409625 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $20.00 05/15/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 651409643 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $14.56 06/11/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 651409657 CMS
Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch $20.00 04/24/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 658033199 CMS
Genentech USA, Inc. $16.72 02/07/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 681314309 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $15.44 01/24/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659130375 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17.78 02/06/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659130381 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $20.00 05/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695744863 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $96.67 06/06/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695553209 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2019_P01232026_01102026.csv

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