Question 1

Has Mario Gonzalez Fernandez received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,201,612 in general payments to Mario Gonzalez Fernandez across 180 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Mario Gonzalez Fernandez did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Mario Gonzalez Fernandez come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
Janssen Research & Development, LLC	48	$500,489
Boehringer Ingelheim	11	$497,389
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$157,886
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH	114	$25,190
Modernatx, Inc.	1	$12,982
GSK	1	$5,500
Pfizer	1	$2,175

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Trazodone Hcl	11	$661
Atorvastatin Calcium	27	$313
Gabapentin	14	$119
Metformin Hcl	14	$71
Amlodipine Besylate	14	$71
Lisinopril	12	$43

Mario Gonzalez Fernandez

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