Dollars for Docs

How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors

This database was last updated in October 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. Newer data is available at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments site.

ALEX J KLINE
Is This Your Doctor?

ALEX J KLINE

Listed Specialty: Orthopaedic Surgery
200 DELAFIELD RD, SUITE 1040, PITTSBURGH, PA, 15215-3205
Is This Your Doctor?

DR. ALEX KLINE,
Yearly Payment Breakdown:

2018 Payments At a Glance

10

payments

$4,232

payment total

3

companies paid this doctor

Payment Calendar in 2018

This doctor received a payment on days in 2018.

Each box below represents a single day during the disclosure period. A gray box indicates no payments. The darker the color, the more payments a doctor received that day.

2018

Types of Payments in 2018

Category Payments Payment Value
Consulting
1 $2,813
Travel and Lodging
3 $723
Education
1 $600
Food and Beverage
5 $97

Drugs & Devices in 2018

Totals listed below account for all payments from that mention this product. Beginning in 2016, the government began classifying products as drugs, devices, biologics or medical supplies. Below, you will see drugs (drugs and biologics) and devices (devices and medical supplies). If a payment record mentions more than one product, the entire value will be included in each of those products. When no products are listed, they are not included in the list below.

Product Name Product Type Payments
DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOREFOOT PLATES & SCREWS HAMMERTOE

device

$2,840
CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF

device

$751
Payments with no listed product

N/A

$619
LCP PLATES & SCREWS

device

$23
† May not add up to dollar total at top of page, since a payment record may not be associated with any product or can be associated with several products.

Payment Details in 2018

When How Much Related To What For From Third Party Payee
May 3, 2018 $2,813 DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOREFOOT PLATES & SCREWS HAMMERTOE Consulting ARTHREX, INC.
Jan 29, 2018 $600 No Listed Product Education MID-ATLANTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS, LLC
Oct 23, 2018 $406 CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF Travel and Lodging ARTHREX, INC.
Nov 5, 2018 $217 CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF Travel and Lodging ARTHREX, INC.
Nov 5, 2018 $100 CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF Travel and Lodging ARTHREX, INC.
Nov 5, 2018 $28 CAPITAL CONSUMABLES CONSUMABLES RF BRF Food and Beverage ARTHREX, INC.
Feb 22, 2018 $27 DISTAL EXTREMITIES IMPLANTS FOREFOOT PLATES & SCREWS HAMMERTOE Food and Beverage ARTHREX, INC.
Oct 18, 2018 $23 LCP PLATES & SCREWS Food and Beverage DEPUY SYNTHES SALES INC.
Jan 29, 2018 $11 No Listed Product Food and Beverage MID-ATLANTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS, LLC
Oct 1, 2018 $8 No Listed Product Food and Beverage MID-ATLANTIC SURGICAL SYSTEMS, LLC
See this doctor’s Open Payments page →

Note: We have made some effort to normalize the data and eliminate duplicates, but the data is primarily as it has been reported by the companies to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. To purchase the normalized data, please visit the ProPublica Data Store. If you spot an error, please let us know at [email protected].

This site includes data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on June 28, 2019.