Dennis Fernandez
Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1275521510
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $173,192 of the $265,677 with a category attached, or 65.2%. Davol Inc. accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among surgery clinicians in AL 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 341 payments — averaging $779.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$250K
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$5K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$245
- TELA Bio, Inc.$230
- plus $810 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,68923%
- Speaking & faculty fees$173,19265%
- Travel & lodging$13,3935%
- Food & beverage$13,4035%
- Education$5,0002%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 268 | $249,611 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 34 | $7,822 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $5,173 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,786 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $245 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $221 |
| BD | 1 | $115 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $110 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $78 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $57 |
| Stryker | 1 | $36 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 2 | $31 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $20 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Phasix Mesh$12,149
- PHASIX$8,457
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,248
- CYTAL$279
- STRATTICE$118
- BD MAX$110
- Ovitex$102
How this compares
$265,677 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 54 | $286 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 54 | $204 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $98 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Huntsville
- Paul SpeicherHuntsville$16K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
- Jayme LockeBirmingham$63K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.