Arthur Hernandez
Pain Medicine · San Antonio, TXNPI 1568428589
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 252 payments — averaging $15.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$820
- AbbVie$567
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$531
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$367
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$206
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$205
- plus $1K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$70118%
- Food & beverage$3,28182%
- Education$211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $820 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 46 | $567 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 45 | $531 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 52 | $367 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 9 | $206 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 17 | $205 |
| Amgen | 10 | $142 |
| Novartis | 8 | $120 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| Abbott | 5 | $99 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $93 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $73 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $69 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $26 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $25 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $21 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Probuphine$807
How this compares
$4,004 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.
Other pain medicine in San Antonio
- Ellen LinSan Antonio$251K
- Theresia LeeSan Antonio$104K
- Prabhdeep GrewalSan Antonio$48K
- Roberto DiazSan Antonio$37K
- Charles BryantSan Antonio$28K
- Aaron CalodneyTyler$3M
- Mitchell EngleHouston$1.5M
- Melissa MurphyGrapevine$711K
- Shiraz YazdaniLubbock$632K
- Muhammad ZulqarnainDallas$556K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.