Alejandro Hernandez Hernandez, MD

5.5 times the Medicare Part D claims of the average undersea and hyperbaric medicine (preventive medicine) physician in 2024

1,686 Medicare Part D claims for 397 beneficiaries, against an average of 308 among the 148 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. 18 claims were for opioids.

Most prescribed

1. Mupirocin156 claims
2. Gentamicin Sulfate129 claims
3. Ssd101 claims
4. Santyl64 claims
5. Doxycycline Hyclate61 claims
6. Clindamycin Hcl55 claims

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.

The practice group's MIPS final score for 2023 (Medicare payment program): 81.4 of 100

The Merit-based Incentive Payment System score is reported for the practice group, not for one clinician alone. Four categories are weighted into the final score; the average among 454,083 clinicians with a measured score was 83.5.

Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).

Industry payments in 2024: $457.61

14 payments; by number, the most common kind was food and beverage; the largest payer was Sechrist Industries Inc. The 120 providers of this specialty with any payment received $4,669.64 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.

Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.

Bills Medicare through 4 group practices

1. Hero Family Medicine Group PLLCMcAllen, TX
2. Mission Dialysis Access Center PAEdinburg, TX
3. Rgv Wound Care Hyperbaricmedicine And Lymphedema Management Group PLLCWeslaco, TX
4. South Texas Clinicians Association PLLCPharr, TX

Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).