CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico received $7,471,842.29 in pharmaceutical-industry payments to 6,354 physicians and 6 teaching hospitals across 59,986 transactions.
- $7.5M
- Total payments
- $7.3M
- To physicians
- $116.9K
- To teaching hospitals
- #43
- of 59 states
In CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies reported $7.5M in payments to 6,354 physicians and 6 teaching hospitals in Puerto Rico. That ranks Puerto Rico #43 of 59 states and territories (0.1% of the US total), averaging $1.2K per physician. Figures are company-reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; a reported payment is a financial relationship, not evidence of wrongdoing.
The verdict
Puerto Rico pairs below-median payment volume with an overwhelmingly physician-directed payment mix.
- #43
- of 59 states
- 0.1%
- of the national total
- 98.1%
- to physicians vs. hospitals
- 6,354
- physicians paid
What the Data Shows for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico's Open Payments file is physician-weighted: 98.1% of $7.5M went to 6,354 physicians ($1.2K each), with 1.6% on 6 teaching hospitals.
On the national dollar ranking it is #43 of 59, so the mix skew is larger than the volume rank. Average transaction $124.56. Leading nature of payment: "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" at $3.5M (46.2% of the state file; top-three natures 83.8%).
Puerto Rico sits in the 29th percentile (lower-volume tier). Just above: Rhode Island ($8.0M). Just below: South Dakota ($7.3M). For context: top-ranked California ($342.4M) is 45.8× larger than Puerto Rico. CMS Sunshine Act framework and methodology.
Physician vs Hospital Payments
How pharmaceutical payments in Puerto Rico are distributed between physicians and teaching hospitals.
Physician Payments
$7.3M
98.1% of total · 6,354 recipients · $1.2K avg
Teaching Hospital Payments
$116.9K
1.6% of total · 6 hospitals · $19.5K avg
Payment Breakdown by Type
Puerto Rico has 14 types of pharmaceutical payments. "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" accounts for 46.2%.
Nature concentration in Puerto Rico
Top three Open Payments natures are 83.8% of state dollars; residual is every other reported nature
Payment categories in Puerto Rico
Top categories by total reported dollar volume
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $3.5M | 1,403 | 46.2% |
| Food and Beverage | $2.0M | 55,533 | 27.4% |
| Consulting Fee | $763.1K | 425 | 10.2% |
| Travel and Lodging | $529.9K | 1,801 | 7.1% |
| Royalty or License | $272.7K | 11 | 3.7% |
| Education | $195.5K | 704 | 2.6% |
| Grant | $74.0K | 15 | 1.0% |
| Honoraria | $41.4K | 23 | 0.6% |
| Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) | $39.9K | 30 | 0.5% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $35.0K | 8 | 0.5% |
| Debt Forgiveness | $17.4K | 10 | 0.2% |
| Entertainment | $1.2K | 4 | 0.0% |
| Long-Term Medical Supply or Device Loan | $398.80 | 4 | 0.0% |
| Gift | $346.93 | 15 | 0.0% |
Read with this Puerto Rico Open Payments read
Volume neighbors, physician-share peers, and the national nature catalog, not the same three guides on every state page.
- Next higher total: Rhode Island ($8.0M)
- Next lower total: South Dakota ($7.3M)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Armed Forces Europe (97.4% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Hawaii (97.3% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Armed Forces Pacific (96.8% to physicians)
- National catalog for leading nature here: Compensation for Services Other Th… (46.2% of Puerto Rico)
- State payment rankings (includes Puerto Rico at #43)
- How Open Payments natures are defined
Data Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments, Program Year 2024. Data includes general payments, research payments, and physician ownership/investment interests as required by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Total industry payments: $13.9B across 1,925 companies.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: CMS Open Payments Database Industry payments to physicians and teaching hospitals · 2024
What Puerto Rico totals can and cannot tell you
The aggregate payment figure for Puerto Rico measures reportable industry–physician engagement inside this state's geographic footprint for Program Year 2024, not any one physician's or hospital's relationship with industry. CMS collects the data under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; manufacturers must report transfers of value above the de minimis threshold. The file does not capture DTC advertising, internal R&D, wholesale drug pricing, or salary support that is not a reportable transfer of value.
Correlations between payment receipt and prescribing appear in peer-reviewed work for specific drugs and specialties, but this page's state total does not establish causation. Open the company and recipient detail pages for category and year-over-year cuts.
Every figure on PlainPharmaWatch is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-26.