Mauricio Hernandez, MD
General Surgery · Miami, FLNPI 1467436501
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $15,000 of the $19,724 with a category attached, or 76.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,523 and has fallen 99.2% since, to $74 in 2025. Among general surgery clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 80 payments — averaging $246.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Davol Inc.$324
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$121
- AbbVie$109
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$97
- plus $85 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,7149%
- Food & beverage$2,99615%
- Education$15,00076%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 41 | $16,753 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 16 | $2,236 |
| Davol Inc. | 13 | $324 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 3 | $121 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $109 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $97 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$15,681
- OviTex 2S$2,032
- Phasix Mesh$143
- NATRELLE$109
How this compares
$19,724 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 54 general surgery providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 11 | $3,772 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 225 | $516 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 105 | $396 |
| Hydrocortisone | 14 | $254 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 20 | $146 |
| Levofloxacin | 31 | $124 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Miami
- Orlando PuenteMiami$1K
- Pete GarciaMiami$514
- Jorge de la PortillaMiami$473
- Josefina FarraMiami$0
- Antonio MarttosMiami$0
- Mark BuzzelliMiami$0
- Edward LineenMiami$0
- Liran BardaMiami$0
- John LewMiami$0
- Matthew DeeterMiami$0
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.