Question 1

Has Fernando Gonzalez Vergara received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $397,244 in general payments to Fernando Gonzalez Vergara across 136 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Fernando Gonzalez Vergara did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Fernando Gonzalez Vergara come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
AbbVie	120	$378,735
Bayer	16	$18,509

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Memantine Hcl	15	$240
Atorvastatin Calcium	17	$91
Alendronate Sodium	11	$43

Fernando Gonzalez Vergara

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