Has Ricardo Hernandez received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,261 in general payments to Ricardo Hernandez across 98 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 Ricardo Hernandez 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 Ricardo Hernandez 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.

Ricardo Hernandez

Gastroenterology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1710971817

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,679 of the $2,261 with a category attached, or 74.2%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 29.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,025 and has fallen 78.3% since, to $222 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for gastroenterology clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $3,104.

$2,261in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $23.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$659
Cook Incorporated$583
Pfizer$142
Boehringer Ingelheim$125
Johnson & Johnson$123
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$120
plus $511 from 16 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$58326%
Food & beverage$1,67974%

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
AbbVie	37	$659
Cook Incorporated	2	$583
Pfizer	9	$142
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$125
Johnson & Johnson	9	$123
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	8	$120
QOL Medical, LLC	4	$78
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	3	$74
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$71
Evoke Pharma, Inc.	3	$46
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$39
Gilead	2	$28
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$27
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	2	$25
Celltrion USA Inc.	1	$24
Romark Laboratories, LC	1	$20
Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.	1	$19
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	1	$16
Olympus America Inc.	1	$15
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$13
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$13
Daxor Corporation	1	$5

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.

Cook Medical Lead Management$583
JARDIANCE$125

How this compares

$2,261 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,350 gastroenterology providers in Texas.

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Michael BrownDallas$5.5M
Bincy AbrahamHouston$1.6M
Mazen NoureddinHouston$1.5M
Stephen PappasHouston$1.4M
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Timothy RitterSouthlake$961K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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