Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

GREGORY M ALBERTON

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery Hand Surgery

NPI
1457310179
CMS profile
20016
Location
SAN DIEGO, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$15,649.48

  • Reported across 96 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$927.80

11 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $927.80 11

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $270.60 2
Arthrex, Inc. $247.04 3
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $222.47 2
Endo USA, Inc. $172.79 3
Alafair Biosciences, Inc. $14.90 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $2,688.50 25
PY2019 $1,686.49 26
PY2020 $1,596.11 4
PY2021 $2,838.87 8
PY2022 $5,250.72 11
PY2023 $660.99 11
PY2024 $927.80 11

Payment records · PY2024 (11)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Alafair Biosciences, Inc. $14.90 12/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138674974 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $108.74 05/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146533967 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $75.81 05/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146533969 CMS
Arthrex, Inc. $62.49 05/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146533971 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $148.86 06/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077811131 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $73.61 07/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077810679 CMS
Endo USA, Inc. $15.07 05/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138576654 CMS
Endo USA, Inc. $15.04 05/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138576656 CMS
Endo USA, Inc. $142.68 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1138576658 CMS
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $119.12 05/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1082481367 CMS
Skeletal Dynamics Inc $151.48 09/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1082482591 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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