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.

VIPER
device

VIPER

$2.21M

payments related to this device in 2018

1,033

doctors receiving payments in 2018

3

teaching hospitals receiving payments in 2018

4

companies making payments related to this device in 2018

Companies Making Payments Related to this Device

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Company Payment
DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC $1.28M
MEDICAL DEVICE BUSINESS SERVICES, INC. $847K
DEPUY SYNTHES SALES INC. $75,283
ETHICON INC. $7,725

Top Doctors Receiving Payments Related to this Device

Totals listed account for all payments during the 2018 calendar year.

Doctor Location Money Paid
HART
ROBERT HART

SEATTLE, WA

$341K
KEBAISH
KHALED KEBAISH

BALTIMORE, MD

$340K
SPONSELLER
PAUL SPONSELLER

BALTIMORE, MD

$325K
HEARY
ROBERT HEARY

NEWARK, NJ

$224K
SCIUBBA
DANIEL SCIUBBA

BALTIMORE, MD

$84,548
ALLEN
RICHARD ALLEN

SAN DIEGO, CA

$35,679
SAMA
ANDREW SAMA

NY, NY

$34,352
LEE
YU-PO LEE

SAN DIEGO, CA

$28,809
LAWRENCE
JAMES LAWRENCE

ALBANY, NY

$25,953
WANG
MICHAEL WANG

MIAMI, FL

$25,692

Top Teaching Hospitals Receiving Payments Related to this Device

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.