David Fernandez
Orthopaedic Surgery · Flint, MINPI 1235110537
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 191 payments — averaging $53.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$3K
- Stryker$2K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$1K
- Medtronic$671
- Johnson & Johnson$610
- Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC$554
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,94758%
- Food & beverage$4,27642%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 19 | $3,493 |
| Stryker | 10 | $1,627 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 5 | $1,412 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $671 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $610 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 39 | $554 |
| Boston Scientific | 21 | $392 |
| Amgen | 30 | $223 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 2 | $172 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $153 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $151 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 2 | $101 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $98 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $69 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $34 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| 7d Surgical Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $22 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- NanoMetalene Technology$1,644
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,261
- ReActiv8$142
- OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION$131
- VARIAX$120
- BIOLOGICS$115
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$106
- IM NAILS$106
- TFN ADVANCED$103
- CANNULATED SCREWS$103
How this compares
$10,223 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 829 orthopaedic surgery providers in Michigan.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Flint
- Seann WillsonFlint$269K
- Asheesh BediAnn Arbor$9.4M
- Jerome WiaterBeverly Hills$5.7M
- Jad KhalilSouthfield$3.7M
- Mark PintoChelsea$3.2M
- Kyle AndersonBingham Farms$3.1M
- Stephen BartolDetroit$2.6M
- Jeffrey FischgrundSouthfield$1.8M
- David MarkelSouthfield$1.7M
- Richard EastonRochester Hills$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.