Dr. Ralph Joseph Fernandez Jr., MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Iberia Medical Center Hospital · New Iberia, LA · listed as Iberia General Hospital & Medical Center
• Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center Hospital · Lafayette, LA · listed as Lafayette General Medical Center Inc
• Our Lady Of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Inc Hospital · Lafayette, LA · listed as Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Inc
• Park Place Surgical Hospital Hospital · Lafayette, LA

Colleagues at Acadiana Women's Health Group, APMC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 12 clinicians in the practice; 9 are shown here.

• Francis J Cardinale, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Dr. Mario L. Cardinale, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lafayette, LA
• John Fuselier, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Dr. Erin Bouillion Hemsell, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lafayette, LA
• A'Dair W Herrington, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Monique Michelle Monteilh, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Mrs. Ashley Romero Parich, PA-C Physician Assistant · Lafayette, LA
• Dr. Andrew William Suire, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Metairie, LA
• Brittin Thibodeaux, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Lafayette, LA

Other providers in Lafayette

• Dr. Wayne Paul Daigle, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1669434189

  155 Hospital Dr Ste 400, Lafayette, LA 70503 · (337) 235-4460

• Daniel R. Bourque, MD, APMC

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1659688489

  435 Heymann Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70503-2616 · (337) 234-3344

• Debbie M Jurgelsky MD LLC

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1194820027

  4540 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste A200, Lafayette, LA 70508-6928 · (337) 988-2929

• Charise Shively Fashho, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1376800987

  4600 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy, Lafayette, LA 70508-6902 · (337) 521-9100

• Frank Caillet, MD, a Professional Medical Corporation

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1407972946

  4540 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste C220, Lafayette, LA 70508-6928 · (337) 216-0000

• Dr. George H Fuller, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1992703649

  4630 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste 208, Lafayette, LA 70508-6949 · (337) 981-6100

• John Fuselier, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1669472189

  4640 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy, Lafayette, LA 70508-6902 · (337) 984-1050

• Grace Gynecology & Wellness Corp APMC

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1154083376

  200 Beaullieu Dr Ste 3B, Lafayette, LA 70508-7230 · (337) 522-7282