Brayden Fernandez
Physician Assistant · Nashville, TNNPI 1639858608
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $26.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$192
- AstraZeneca$174
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$126
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$117
- Novartis$112
- Johnson & Johnson$82
- plus $645 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,448100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 7 | $192 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 7 | $174 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $126 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Novartis | 4 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $44 |
| GSK | 2 | $42 |
| Taiho Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ZIIHERA$117
How this compares
$1,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,404 physician assistant providers in Tennessee.
Other physician assistant in Nashville
- Jason HenryNashville$329K
- Brie ChandlerNashville$317K
- John KramerNashville$125K
- Elisabeth BennettNashville$109K
- Nicholas BarkemeyerNashville$85K
- Rachel ConklinNashville$60K
- Aaron MankinNashville$53K
- Marci KleinrockNashville$39K
- Kevin GriffinNashville$18K
- Walter SimsNashville$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.