Has Eric Hernandez-Ortiz, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,503 in general payments to Eric Hernandez-Ortiz, MD across 66 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Hernandez-Ortiz, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Hernandez-Ortiz, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Hernandez-Ortiz, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Ponce, PRNPI 1306123500

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.2%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Encore Medical, LP at 57.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,846 and has fallen 66.6% since, to $2,617 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in PR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$13,503in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $204.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$8K
Smith+Nephew$2K
Exactech, Inc.$2K
Arthrex$2K
Johnson And Johnson International$282
Johnson & Johnson$80
plus $205 from 5 others

$28,800in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $28,800 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Encore Medical, LP$29K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$1,50011%
Travel & lodging$7,86058%
Food & beverage$3,21324%
Education$9307%

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
Encore Medical, LP	25	$7,707
Smith+Nephew	9	$2,091
Exactech, Inc.	5	$1,609
Arthrex	15	$1,529
Johnson And Johnson International	4	$282
Johnson & Johnson	1	$80
Davol Inc.	1	$69
Teleflex LLC	1	$66
PBG Puerto Rico LLC	2	$33
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$25
Boston Scientific	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.

DJO Surgical AltiVate Anatomic System$3,154
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$2,596
DJO SURGICAL$2,515
FAST-FIX$1,503
DJO Surgical CLP Hip System$1,166
DJO Surgical Match Point System$1,096
EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$965
DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$704
OPTETRAK$610
REDAPT$241
Fast-Fix 360$189
FAST-FIX FLEX$189
FIRSTPASS MINI$189
Mosaicplasty$189
NOVOCUT$189
HEALIX$124
GLOBAL$124
DELTA$124
EVOS SMALL$124
MICRORAPTOR Knotless Hip$124

How this compares

$13,503 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 94 orthopaedic surgery providers in Puerto Rico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$7,665

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	111	$2,019
Ibuprofen	175	$1,060
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	94	$990
Diclofenac Sodium	21	$552
Diclofenac Potassium	15	$479
Baclofen	46	$399
Celecoxib	14	$283
Chlorzoxazone	11	$270
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	18	$203
Tramadol Hcl	34	$145
IbuIbuprofen	13	$103

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Ponce

Danny Mangual-PerezPonce$13K
Carlos Colon GomezPonce$6K
Alberto Rivera RosadoSanturce$197K
Andres Muniz MartinezCayey$56K
David Beaton ComuladaSan Juan$29K
John KaganHumacao$27K
Juan Santiago TorresHatillo$24K
Ariel Davila-ParrillaSan Juan$21K
Francisco Lopez-GonzalezSan Juan$16K
Jose Rodriguez DiazDorado$14K

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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.

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