Fernando Sanchez, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1295701035
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 299 payments — averaging $2190.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$629K
- Linkbio Corp$13K
- DJO, LLC$7K
- Biocomposites Inc$3K
- Encore Medical, LP$1K
- Stryker$212
- plus $1K from 16 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $4897.88 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.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$73K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$7710%
- Consulting fees$423,87588%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,5854%
- Travel & lodging$28,2126%
- Food & beverage$9,5232%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 256 | $628,994 |
| Linkbio Corp | 3 | $13,000 |
| DJO, LLC | 7 | $7,405 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 4 | $2,758 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $1,365 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 7 | $212 |
| Limacorporate S.p.a. | 1 | $192 |
| Wound Management Technologies, Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $116 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $110 |
| Microport Orthopedics Inc | 2 | $109 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $33 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $32 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
| Vertex | 1 | $14 |
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.
- GMK SPHERE$248,166
- GMK REVISION$34,682
- QUADRA$29,096
- GMK Sphere Revision System$27,454
- AMISTEM$9,730
- Quadra C Femoral Stems$8,750
- MOTO UNI$2,605
- Stimulan$2,500
- AMIStem H Femoral Stems$1,804
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$1,365
- Mfinity Cup$501
- MOTO Partial Knee System$454
- Product Portfolio$192
- M-VIZION$151
- MASTERLOC$143
- CellerateRx$137
- NEXTAR$125
- ATTUNE$116
- Irrisept$110
- GMK EFFICIENCY$105
How this compares
$654,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Etodolac | 85 | $2,658 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 191 | $1,484 |
| Lidocaine | 11 | $1,248 |
| Celecoxib | 112 | $757 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 96 | $729 |
| Cephalexin | 104 | $602 |
| Mupirocin | 73 | $585 |
| Meloxicam | 158 | $358 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 48 | $349 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 28 | $331 |
| Hydroxyzine Pamoate | 82 | $293 |
| Methylprednisolone | 45 | $287 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 20 | $278 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 127 | $267 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 66 | $225 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New Orleans
- Robert ZuraNew Orleans$792K
- Matthew CableNew Orleans$79K
- Gustavo GodoyNew Orleans$76K
- Cameron KingNew Orleans$74K
- Ramin SadeghpourNew Orleans$37K
- Robert HuangNew Orleans$28K
- Leland McCluskeyNew Orleans$24K
- Willard MooreNew Orleans$23K
- Jessica RiveraNew Orleans$20K
- Richard MeyerNew Orleans$16K
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.