Gary Fernandez
Family Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1265797021
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 227 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 34.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,875, more than ten times the $26 reported in 2019. Among family medicine clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
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
- Frank PhillipsChicago$1.6M
- Bradley TorphyChicago$1.3M
- Sandy GibsonChicago$309K
- Mandy GittlerChicago$204K
- Igor AltmanChicago$64K
- James DelisChicago$31K
- Tatiana BatistaChicago$26K
- Wen Ho YangChicago$26K
- Abdulmassih AbdulmassihChicago$24K
- Andrew PavlatosChicago$22K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.