Christopher Fernandez
Cardiovascular Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1578024840
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $146.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$7K
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$243
- ZOLL Circulation Inc$221
- Terumo Medical Corporation$159
- Abiomed$113
- Novartis$95
- plus $625 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$7,00082%
- Food & beverage$1,50718%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 3 | $7,051 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $243 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 3 | $221 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 5 | $159 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $113 |
| Novartis | 4 | $95 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $82 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $79 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $70 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $54 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $30 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- TherOx DS2 Console$181
- Catheter$181
- Downstream Cartridge$181
How this compares
$8,507 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 11 | $339 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $171 |
| Chlorthalidone | 13 | $152 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 15 | $96 |
| Furosemide | 19 | $34 |
| Spironolactone | 13 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Chicago
- Benjamin LumicaoChicago$3.7M
- Paul CremerChicago$2.9M
- Nitasha SarswatChicago$2M
- Sanjiv ShahChicago$1.2M
- Sandeep NathanChicago$1.1M
- Boaz AvitallChicago$663K
- Ravi PatelChicago$488K
- Lubna ChoudhuryChicago$476K
- Akhil NarangChicago$427K
- Amit AminChicago$407K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.