Has Fermin Fontan, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $86,919 in general payments to Fermin Fontan, MD across 151 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 Fermin Fontan, 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 Fermin Fontan, 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.

Fermin Fontan, MD

Surgery · Las Cruces, NMNPI 1902148885

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $68,000 of the $86,919 with a category attached, or 78.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $41,738, more than ten times the $87 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in NM 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.

$86,919in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 151 payments — averaging $575.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$80K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
Davol Inc.$1K
Johnson & Johnson$135
Endogastric Solutions, Inc$123
plus $143 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$12,48614%
Food & beverage$6,4107%
Education$68,00078%
Gifts$220%

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
Intuitive Surgical	85	$79,917
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	21	$2,741
Medtronic	24	$2,470
Davol Inc.	14	$1,390
Johnson & Johnson	2	$135
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	2	$123
Olympus America Inc.	1	$87
BD	2	$56

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$78,627
GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$1,730
Phasix Mesh$855
GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$343
ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$294
Signia$285
Echelon Flex$119
Enseal$119

How this compares

$86,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 162 surgery providers in New Mexico.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$72,097

Medicare patients

123

Services billed

367

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
Omeprazole	101	$1,745
Famotidine	53	$850
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	59	$678
Sucralfate	13	$493
Celecoxib	39	$414
Gabapentin	47	$253
Alprazolam	48	$62
Metoclopramide Hcl	17	$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Michael BleaAlbuquerque$420K
David HoangAlbuquerque$264K
Erica McBrideAlbuquerque$95K
Gregory BorahAlbuquerque$77K
Edward AuyangAlbuquerque$70K

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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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