Thelma Fernandez
Family Medicine · Lancaster, CANPI 1861505158
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $15.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$321
- GSK$307
- Novartis$163
- AbbVie$146
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$141
- Novo Nordisk$138
- plus $665 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,872100%
- Education$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $321 |
| GSK | 19 | $307 |
| Novartis | 11 | $163 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $146 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 7 | $141 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $138 |
| Amgen | 6 | $105 |
| Merck | 6 | $86 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $66 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $58 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $19 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$1,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 10,533 family medicine providers in California.
Other family medicine in Lancaster
- Amina HaggagNorthridge$112.8M
- Steven ReynoldsLong Beach$53M
- Rizwana MohseniLake Forest$26.7M
- Daniel JohnsonSan Diego$15.7M
- Stacey LayleSan Diego$14.8M
- Apinya VutikullirdCypress$14.3M
- Hanid AudishSpring Valley$13.6M
- Augusto FocilOxnard$12.6M
- Jack VuLong Beach$10.1M
- Suzanne FussellOxnard$8.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.