Roland Hernandez, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Seattle, WANPI 1720213580
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,361 of the $4,673 with a category attached, or 71.9%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 44.6% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in WA, where the typical reported total is $4,673.
Across 49 payments — averaging $95.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Abiomed$620
- Atricure, Inc.$372
- Biomerieux Inc$90
- Abbott$58
- plus $156 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,36172%
- Food & beverage$1,31228%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 21 | $2,083 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $1,293 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $620 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 6 | $372 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $90 |
| Abbott | 2 | $58 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $29 |
| Corcym Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$4,673 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 105 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Washington.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Seattle
- Glenn BarnhartSeattle$577K
- Eric VallieresSeattle$202K
- Eric LehrSeattle$72K
- Thomas VargheseSeattle$22K
- Shakirat OyetunjiSeattle$21K
- Christopher BurkeSeattle$19K
- Mohamed EldeirySeattle$17K
- Ioannis John DemarakosSeattle$15K
- Peter WhiteSeattle$15K
- Joel SternbachSeattle$13K
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.