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

Sherryl Mitchell Hernandez

Nephrology San Antonio, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1578972089 CMS profile 1176837

12446 West Ave, San Antonio, TX 78216

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General payments

$4,111

145 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, Sherryl Mitchell Hernandez of San Antonio, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,111 across 145 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 77th percentile of Nephrology 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 $723 33
2024 General $911 40
2023 General $826 31
2022 General $806 30
2021 General $426 4
2020 General $55 4
2019 General $363 3

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Sherryl Mitchell Hernandez
  • Nephrology median
  • Middle half of Nephrology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Sherryl Mitchell Hernandez were reported at $723. Among 8,186 Nephrology profiles paid that year, the median was $310 and the middle half received between $104 and $880.

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Year Sherryl Mitchell Hernandez Nephrology median Middle half National median
2019 $363 $236 $90–$588 $163
2020 $55 $135 $46–$364 $114
2021 $426 $202 $67–$551 $132
2022 $806 $242 $77–$695 $149
2023 $826 $254 $84–$766 $160
2024 $911 $300 $99–$852 $164
2025 $723 $310 $104–$880 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $549 24 payments
  2. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $448 13 payments
  3. Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $426 15 payments
  4. Relypsa, Inc. $309 6 payments
  5. Horizon Therapeutics plc $278 5 payments
  6. Retrophin, Inc. $263 19 payments
  7. Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $226 10 payments
  8. Baxter Healthcare $222 3 payments
  9. Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. $217 9 payments
  10. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $158 6 payments
  11. Other $1,015 35 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $3,815 132 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $200 1 payment
  3. Education $96 12 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARXIGA $451 19 payments
  2. JYNARQUE $449 16 payments
  3. Kerendia $448 13 payments
  4. Veltassa $280 5 payments
  5. KRYSTEXXA $252 4 payments
  6. LUPKYNIS $217 9 payments
  7. Velphoro $202 9 payments
  8. TARPEYO $131 6 payments
  9. UPTRAVI $122 1 payment
  10. Renal - CRRT $122 1 payment
  11. Other $1,256 41 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 · 18 drugs

Part D claims

925

Median for Nephrology: 954

Drug cost

$257,094

Median for Nephrology: $127,050

Branded share of claims

26.2%

Median for Nephrology: 17.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 129 $162,838
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 42 $49,969
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 26 $33,127
Prosol Parenteral Amino Acid 20% No.1 Brand 20 $3,406
Allopurinol Generic 119 $1,036
Hydralazine Hcl Generic 55 $972
Amlodipine Besylate Generic 98 $874
Losartan Potassium Generic 77 $822
Furosemide Generic 110 $734
Calcitriol Generic 40 $724

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 18 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 9,003 Part D prescribers listed as Nephrology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 16 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$177,512

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

398

Average age 73

Services billed

1,343

210 women, 188 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%
Chronic kidney disease 75%
Diabetes 63%
Ischemic heart disease 55%
Arthritis 55%
Heart failure 48%
COPD 36%
Atrial fibrillation 32%

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 11 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
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $188
$188 129 —
Kerendia
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $148
$148 42 —
JYNARQUE
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $69
  • Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $23
$93 — —
Velphoro
  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. $60
$60 — —
Vafseo
  • AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS INC $49
$49 — —

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

145 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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