Has Orlando Tijerina, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,320 in general payments to Orlando Tijerina, MD across 105 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Orlando Tijerina, MD did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Orlando Tijerina, MD come from?

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.

Orlando Tijerina, MD

Anesthesiology · McAllen, TXNPI 1194792622

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,238 of the $6,320 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Abbott accounts for 84.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,064 and has fallen 84.1% since, to $486 in 2025. Among anesthesiology clinicians in TX 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.

$6,320in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $60.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$5K
Medtronic$794
Getinge USA Sales, LLC$73
AbbVie$70
Edwards Lifesciences$44

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,08233%
Food & beverage$4,23867%

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
Abbott	78	$5,338
Medtronic	23	$794
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	2	$73
AbbVie	1	$70
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$44

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.

How this compares

$6,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,899 anesthesiology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$54,595

Medicare patients

Services billed

435

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	193	$15,154
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	52	$1,476
Pregabalin	73	$1,236
Gabapentin	65	$543
Tramadol Hcl-AcetaminophenTramadol Hcl/Acetaminophen	14	$443
Duloxetine Hcl	30	$275
Tramadol Hcl	32	$267
Baclofen	17	$266
Celecoxib	17	$249
Cephalexin	13	$132
Methocarbamol	12	$120

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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