Gary Fernandez
Family Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1265797021
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 227 payments — averaging $19.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$2K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$2K
- Merck$362
- Theratechnologies Inc.$344
- AbbVie$234
- Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc$136
- plus $327 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,450100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 72 | $1,545 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 86 | $1,501 |
| Merck | 15 | $362 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 18 | $344 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $234 |
| Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc | 7 | $136 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $26 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Biktarvy$121
How this compares
$4,450 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,116 family medicine providers in Illinois.
Other family medicine in Chicago
- Bradley TorphyChicago$3M
- Frank PhillipsChicago$1.6M
- Ayoade AkereChicago$484K
- Sandy GibsonChicago$309K
- Mandy GittlerChicago$204K
- Jacqueline OlivoChicago$165K
- Sameer PanjwaniChicago$136K
- Igor AltmanChicago$64K
- Juan RojasChicago$40K
- Mark SimonChicago$39K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.