Hernando Gomez Danies
Critical Care Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1760617187
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,080 of the $2,784 with a category attached, or 74.7%. Biomerieux Inc accounts for 74.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,080 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $258 in 2025.
Across 7 payments — averaging $397.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biomerieux Inc$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$418
- BD$258
- Exthera Medical Corporation$28
Across 5 payments — averaging $27,893 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.
- Biomerieux Inc$139K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,08075%
- Food & beverage$70425%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $2,080 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $418 |
| BD | 2 | $258 |
| Exthera Medical Corporation | 1 | $28 |
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.
- HemoSphere$306
How this compares
$2,784 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 354 critical care medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
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.
Other critical care medicine in Pittsburgh
- Briana DisilvioPittsburgh$204K
- Meilin YoungPittsburgh$182K
- Kees PoldermanPittsburgh$85K
- Michael RisbanoPittsburgh$34K
- Raghavan MuruganPittsburgh$33K
- Eric BihlerPittsburgh$22K
- Tiffany DumontPittsburgh$21K
- Amy SchmetzerPittsburgh$13K
- Stephanie BaltajiPittsburgh$10K
- Billie BarkerPittsburgh$10K
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.