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General Payments — all program years on this page

$25,763.50

  • Category: General Payments
  • Program years: PY2018–2024
  • Record count: 59
  • As of (CMS publication): 2026-01-23

Latest program year (PY2024): $984.26 across 11 records · disputed records: 0

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

How this figure is 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

Latest program year (PY2024) · sorted by reported total.

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Travel and Lodging $598.743
Food and Beverage $385.528

By paying entity

Latest program year (PY2024) · sorted by reported total.

Paying entityAmountRecords
ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $890.877
Stryker Corporation $36.962
Medtronic, Inc. $32.291
DJO, LLC $24.141

By program year

Program yearAmountRecords
2018 $7,117.0312
2019 $1,570.2818
2020 $294.762
2021 $78.882
2022 $100.233
2023 $15,618.0611
2024 $984.2611

Records — PY2024 (11)

Record IDPaying entityAmountDate Nature of paymentDispute statusPublishedSource
1119573557 Medtronic, Inc. $32.29 11/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1119970600 Stryker Corporation $20.23 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1119970602 Stryker Corporation $16.73 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721631 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $199.58 05/23/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721633 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $21.32 05/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721637 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $36.68 05/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721639 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $34.55 05/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721653 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $199.58 05/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721663 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $199.58 05/23/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154721665 ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $199.58 05/23/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS
1154738598 DJO, LLC $24.14 08/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 View at CMS

Provenance & corrections

  • Dataset: CMS Open Payments — General Payments
  • Source: CMS Open Payments dataset (bulk file)
  • Publisher of source data: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Generated from: OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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