Fernando Aguirre
Internal Medicine · San Antonio, TXNPI 1861499444
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 220 payments — averaging $12.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$506
- AstraZeneca$386
- Johnson & Johnson$309
- Merck$265
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$264
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$193
- plus $830 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,64496%
- Education$1084%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 25 | $506 |
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $386 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 30 | $309 |
| Merck | 26 | $265 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 18 | $264 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $193 |
| Amgen | 11 | $175 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 51 | $156 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $138 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $116 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $50 |
| Gilead | 3 | $42 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $27 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| GSK | 1 | $12 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $11 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, 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.
How this compares
$2,752 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in San Antonio
- Robert BassSan Antonio$25.6M
- Hernan SalazarSan Antonio$18.5M
- Dennis RuffSan Antonio$7.5M
- Cassandra KeySan Antonio$5.6M
- Jan BurgerHouston$47.3M
- Nitin JainHouston$33.2M
- Muhammad IrfanTomball$30.6M
- Aung NaingHouston$30.6M
- Preetesh JainHouston$19.5M
- Paolo StratiHouston$19.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.