Who Paid My Doc
Fernando Mendoza
Nurse Practitioner Santa Barbara, CA Physician Assistant
NPI 1245358449 CMS profile 10560920
1704 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
General payments
$8,580
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Fernando Mendoza of Santa Barbara, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $8,580 across 240 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 96th percentile of Nurse Practitioner profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $2,523 | 62 | |
| 2024 | General | $3,510 | 91 | |
| 2023 | General | $1,195 | 39 | |
| 2022 | General | $615 | 19 | |
| 2021 | General | $737 | 29 |
Beside peers
- Fernando Mendoza
- Nurse Practitioner median
- Middle half of Nurse Practitioner
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Fernando Mendoza were reported at $2,523. Among 41,044 Nurse Practitioner profiles paid that year, the median was $174 and the middle half received between $55 and $557.
Show as a table
| Year | Fernando Mendoza | Nurse Practitioner median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $50 | $22–$97 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $40 | $16–$108 | $114 |
| 2021 | $737 | $135 | $40–$426 | $132 |
| 2022 | $615 | $152 | $48–$470 | $149 |
| 2023 | $1,195 | $166 | $54–$529 | $160 |
| 2024 | $3,510 | $173 | $55–$556 | $164 |
| 2025 | $2,523 | $174 | $55–$557 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 38 drugsPart D claims
1,124
Drug cost
$130,981
Branded share of claims
17.5%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auryxia Ferric Citrate | Brand | 27 | $35,405 | |
| Veltassa Patiromer Calcium Sorbitex | Brand | 22 | $30,914 | |
| Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol | Brand | 16 | $15,048 | |
| Sevelamer Carbonate | Generic | 70 | $14,973 | |
| Lokelma Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate | Brand | 22 | $13,886 | |
| Eliquis Apixaban | Brand | 15 | $7,438 | |
| Calcium Acetate | Generic | 61 | $4,867 | |
| Nifedipine Er Nifedipine | Brand | 21 | $971 | |
| Amlodipine Besylate | Generic | 124 | $688 | |
| Losartan Potassium | Generic | 81 | $657 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 38 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 229,976 Part D prescribers listed as Nurse Practitioner; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Payments and prescribing
First 5 of 37 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FARXIGA |
|
$506 | 16 | — |
| LOKELMA |
|
$352 | 22 | — |
| AIRSUPRA |
|
$239 | — | — |
| XPHOZAH 30 MG |
|
$202 | — | — |
| EVENITY |
|
$161 | — | — |
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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.