Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Celia Fernandez

Rheumatology Cullman, AL Medical Doctor

NPI 1447313952 CMS profile 292014

117 2Nd Ave Se, Cullman, AL 35055

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General payments

$11,125

530 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Celia Fernandez of Cullman, AL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,125 across 530 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 74th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,997 103
2024 General $2,374 116
2023 General $2,653 125
2022 General $1,623 78
2021 General $842 39
2020 General $497 27
2019 General $1,139 42

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Celia Fernandez
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Celia Fernandez were reported at $1,997. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Celia Fernandez Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,139 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $497 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $842 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $1,623 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $2,653 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $2,374 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $1,997 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $3,521 157 payments
  2. Amgen Inc. $1,350 72 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $910 42 payments
  4. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $622 33 payments
  5. UCB, Inc. $581 27 payments
  6. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $473 18 payments
  7. Horizon Therapeutics plc $448 21 payments
  8. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $438 22 payments
  9. Indivior Inc. $417 22 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $361 23 payments
  11. Other $2,005 93 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $10,996 527 payments
  2. Education $129 3 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RINVOQ $2,053 94 payments
  2. TREMFYA $773 35 payments
  3. BENLYSTA $588 31 payments
  4. SKYRIZI $562 26 payments
  5. KRYSTEXXA Inflammation/Rare Disease $500 30 payments
  6. SAPHNELO $457 17 payments
  7. KRYSTEXXA Krystexxa $448 21 payments
  8. SIMPONI ARIA $431 19 payments
  9. HUMIRA $366 13 payments
  10. COSENTYX $361 17 payments
  11. Other $5,544 282 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 43 drugs

Part D claims

2,730

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$3,028,322

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

31.1%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Strensiq Asfotase Alfa Brand 13 $899,485
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 109 $865,694
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 45 $285,852
Skyrizi Pen Risankizumab-Rzaa Brand 12 $248,995
Tremfya Guselkumab Brand 12 $162,690
Simponi Golimumab Brand 20 $121,266
Orencia Clickject Abatacept Brand 19 $106,779
Otezla Apremilast Brand 21 $104,051
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 12 $89,008
Prolia Denosumab Brand 24 $41,159

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 43 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 85 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$821,399

Of which drugs: $751,135

Medicare patients

310

Average age 73

Services billed

43,174

224 women, 86 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 75%
Depression 34%
Diabetes 32%
Osteoporosis 32%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
Heart failure 23%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 11 7,900 $267,231
Injection, dalbavancin, 5 mg J0875 Office 18 11,400 $134,647
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 11 8,150 $73,528
Injection, denosumab, 1 mg J0897 Office 22 1,920 $39,179
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 15 74 $58

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 27 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $527
$527 45 —
KRYSTEXXA
  • Amgen Inc. $348
$348 — —
SKYRIZI
  • AbbVie, Inc. $321
$321 12 —
BENLYSTA
  • GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $163
$163 — —
COSENTYX
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $149
$149 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

530 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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