Arlene Hernandez, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Bayamon, PRNPI 1790976405
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 48 payments — averaging $38.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$890
- Sanofi$263
- Boehringer Ingelheim$221
- GSK$204
- Lilly USA, LLC$119
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$46
- plus $111 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,81598%
- Education$392%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $890 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $263 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $221 |
| GSK | 9 | $204 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $119 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $37 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Mylan LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$1,854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 138 pulmonary disease providers in Puerto Rico.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 434 | $291,580 |
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 21 | $272,423 |
| Fasenra PenBenralizumab | 29 | $167,392 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 42 | $157,823 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 215 | $90,283 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 57 | $37,224 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 57 | $27,249 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 30 | $16,080 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 75 | $14,704 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 278 | $12,019 |
| Atrovent HfaIpratropium Bromide | 22 | $10,472 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 31 | $6,747 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 11 | $5,385 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 198 | $3,806 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 263 | $2,243 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $204 | $415,859737 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat | $221 | $293,88862 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere | $890 | $37,22457 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 138 pulmonary disease providers in Puerto Rico.
Other pulmonary disease in Bayamon
- Eduardo FahmeBayamon$15K
- Mario Espinosa GarciaBayamon$5K
- Francisco Carro AnzalottaBayamon$5K
- Marlene Farinacci VilaroBayamon$4K
- Joan Albors SanchezBayamon$3K
- Alvaro Aranda RodriguezGuaynabo$1.9M
- Edgardo Cartagena AyalaSan Juan$1M
- Luis Garcia BarretoCoamo$393K
- Domingo Chardon FelicianoPonce$152K
- Luis Nieves GarrasteguiRio Piedras$121K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.