Jaime Hernandez, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · van Nuys, CANPI 1699909101
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (46.9%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 79.3% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $85,898 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $205 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CA 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 327 payments — averaging $562.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$146K
- Arthrex$17K
- Stryker$13K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Orthosensor Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$854
- plus $3K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$86,14847%
- Speaking & faculty fees$56,44031%
- Travel & lodging$33,68218%
- Food & beverage$7,5444%
- Education$330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 231 | $145,836 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $17,100 |
| Stryker | 36 | $12,813 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 5 | $3,160 |
| Orthosensor Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $854 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 8 | $671 |
| Abbott | 3 | $649 |
| Orthalign Inc | 1 | $429 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $342 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $52 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $32 |
| Vertex | 1 | $24 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $19 |
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.
- Journey II$122,801
- CORI$33,371
- POLARSTEM$29,452
- Anthology$27,798
- BIRMINGHAM HIP$20,643
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$17,100
- LEGION TKS$17,073
- Engage Partial Knee System$12,878
- NAVIO$12,273
- Journey II XR$11,213
- JOURNEY II UK$10,115
- STRYKER NAV3$9,500
- Legion Revision$9,133
- KNEE3 Software$8,198
- R3$7,583
- POLAR3$5,785
- POLARCUP$5,527
- Journey II BCS$5,238
- Oxinium Hips$5,100
- OXINIUM Hip$4,947
How this compares
$183,846 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 422 | $1,701 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $996 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 24 | $750 |
| Naproxen | 15 | $511 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 26 | $382 |
| Ibuprofen | 30 | $219 |
| Gabapentin | 24 | $188 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 24 | $106 |
| Amoxicillin | 25 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in van Nuys
- Eric Ferkelvan Nuys$524K
- Bradford HackArcadia$18.3M
- Robert GorabOrange$13.6M
- Kelly VinceLos Angeles$9.6M
- Stephen HowellSacramento$9.4M
- Thomas CoonRed Bluff$9.2M
- Nirav AminPlacentia$5.6M
- Tom NorrisSan Francisco$5.3M
- Jay LiebermanLos Angeles$4.8M
- Peter NewtonSan Diego$4.2M
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.