Fernando Cruz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Clovis, CANPI 1326591041
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 110 payments — averaging $149.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Arthrex$3K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.$2K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$1K
- Sequoia Surgical, Inc.$764
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5009%
- Grants$3422%
- Travel & lodging$7,34145%
- Food & beverage$4,62328%
- Education$2,61116%
- Gifts$240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 41 | $5,240 |
| Arthrex | 22 | $2,648 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $2,273 |
| Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. | 8 | $1,737 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 6 | $1,382 |
| Sequoia Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $764 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $650 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $474 |
| BD | 2 | $290 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $237 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $171 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $141 |
| Axogen | 2 | $137 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $127 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $101 |
| Vertex | 2 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$4,144
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,697
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$1,494
- InSet System$1,325
- NONE$342
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$276
- Geminus$237
- Align$237
- IJS$237
- Implate$237
- SIMPLICITI$197
- BioBrace 23mm$171
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$161
- EVOS$141
- MY01 Continuous Compartmental Pressure Monitor$127
- GAMMA$113
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$101
How this compares
$16,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 81 | $1,568 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 19 | $1,292 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 87 | $859 |
| Celecoxib | 72 | $462 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 76 | $372 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $146 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 35 | $127 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Clovis
- Armen MartirosianClovis$649K
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$14.5M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$7M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.8M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
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.