Carolina Hernandez
Nurse Practitioner · Lake Worth, FLNPI 1851146757
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.6% of the total across 322 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 322 payments — averaging $21.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- UCB, Inc.$807
- AstraZeneca$755
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$654
- Novartis$607
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,83697%
- Education$2383%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 80 | $1,134 |
| AbbVie | 46 | $1,022 |
| UCB, Inc. | 36 | $807 |
| AstraZeneca | 30 | $755 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 19 | $654 |
| Novartis | 29 | $607 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $532 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $272 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 11 | $236 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $223 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 9 | $218 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $125 |
| GSK | 5 | $119 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $80 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $65 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $45 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $34 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $17 |
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
$7,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,290 nurse practitioner providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 23 | $1,293 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 29 | $825 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 33 | $410 |
| Prednisone | 99 | $409 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 26 | $374 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 25 | $307 |
| Gabapentin | 34 | $233 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $98 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $92 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $66 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Lake Worth
- Jolanta BaginskiClearwater$494K
- Adissa PerezWinter Park$370K
- April WessonTampa$342K
- Margarita FernandezMiami$311K
- Stephanie SimmermanNaples$283K
- Claudette WalkerPonte Vedra Beach$271K
- Lisa NodzonTampa$246K
- Ashima BahlTampa$226K
- Maya BloombergMiami$202K
- Jennifer PuleoTampa$171K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.