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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
A-dec, Inc.
A-dec, Inc. reported $1,807,698.83 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 7,139 physicians and teaching hospitals across 7,139 transactions.
- $1.8M Top quartile payer
- All-tracks total
- 7,139 Top quartile volume
- Transactions
- 7,139 Top quartile reach
- Recipients
- −$223.3K
- General Payments vs PY2023
A-dec, Inc. reported $1,807,698.83 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 7,139 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #475 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $1,807,698.83, averaging $253.21 per recipient.
A-dec, Inc.'s payment reach score
Each tracked dimension is percentile-scored against the national companies corpus, then averaged across only the dimensions that apply to this company, a neutral scale measure of reporting activity, not a rating of quality, safety, or ethics.
Overall reach score
D
51/100
Total payments
F
27/100
Transaction volume
D
62/100
Physician reach
D
64/100
Payment type diversity
D
50/100
Data currency: Figures are rendered from the processed CMS Open Payments release. See our methodology for source dates and refresh cadence. Spot a figure that looks wrong? Report a correction.
CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer a-dec-inc A-dec, Inc.
$1.8M · #475/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $1.8M
- RANK #475
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 7,139
- RCP 7,139
- CAT 4
- GEN $1.8M
- ΔGEN −$223.3K
- TOP1 2.5%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Merck Healthcare KGaA ($1.8M)
A-dec, Inc. sits among 1,925 manufacturers disclosing under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Volume peers below are nearest by all-tracks total, not corporate affiliates. Open the company rankings →
Release-over-release change
General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024
A-dec, Inc.'s CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $223.3K (−11.0%) from PY2023 to PY2024.
How this year-over-year comparison is scoped
The comparison uses consecutive CMS program years only (current = prior + 1) from the manufacturer General Payments summary and excludes research and ownership or investment records. Non-consecutive year pairs are not shown as year-over-year change. This General Payments figure is not the all-tracks company total in the hero.
CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2022: A-DEC, INC.PY2023: A-DEC, INC.PY2024: A-dec, Inc.. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.
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General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024
Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total
- PY2023
- $2,030,980.51
- PY2024
- $1,807,698.83
What the Data Shows for A-dec, Inc.
Three separate CMS disclosure tracks feed the all-tracks total above - General, Research, and Ownership/Investment - each reported under its own rules and combined here for one comparable figure. For A-dec, Inc. that figure is drawn almost entirely from the General Payments track (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees). CMS releases each Program Year roughly 12 months after it ends; the methodology page covers the full standardization basis.
5,627 transactions worth $1.6M make "Gift" the top general-payment category in the 4-category breakdown below, 89.4% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Across 4 types of general payments, A-dec, Inc.'s largest category was "Gift" at $1.6M - 89.4% of General Payments.
A-dec, Inc. reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Gift (89.4%), Travel and Lodging (6.6%), and Food and Beverage (3.9%). The remaining 1 category make up 0.1% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How A-dec, Inc. divides its payments
How the reported total splits across payment categories
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gift | $1.6M | 5,627 | 89.4% |
| Travel and Lodging | $119.8K | 639 | 6.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $69.9K | 841 | 3.9% |
| Entertainment | $944.41 | 32 | 0.1% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $107,115.70 (5.9%) of $1,807,698.83 in this company's General Payments records across 2,524 recipients.
General Payments scope note
Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.
Largest General-Payment relationships for A-dec, Inc.
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Sergio Guzman
$45,340.00 across 7 reported transactions
- 2
Travis Lane Epperson
$17,444.00 across 14 reported transactions
- 3
Jolanta Maria Macdonald
$15,210.00 across 12 reported transactions
- 4
Mark Estes Lawton
$14,869.45 across 37 reported transactions
- 5
Mitchell Richard Cooper
$14,252.25 across 8 reported transactions
Compare this company's payment profile with similarly sized manufacturers in the company comparison tool, and consult the methodology for the CMS source scope.
Spend vs. Concentration
A-dec, Inc. ranks #475 of 1,925 by total payments (top 25% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,803 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 2% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
View all 12 companies in this HHI neighborhood as a list
- Hospira, Inc. : $21.6K total payments, HHI 31
- Hydrofera LLC : $38.2K total payments, HHI 31
- Galderma Laboratories, L.P. : $16.5M total payments, HHI 29
- Medicomp Inc : $19.9K total payments, HHI 28
- Watermark Medical, Inc. : $9.7K total payments, HHI 26
- Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc : $16.1M total payments, HHI 25
- A-dec, Inc. (this company) : $1.8M total payments, HHI 24
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc. : $1.2M total payments, HHI 24
- Alvogen Inc : $19.0K total payments, HHI 24
- OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC : $44.5K total payments, HHI 24
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc. : $24.4M total payments, HHI 24
- Abbott Laboratories : $38.3M total payments, HHI 23
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as A-dec, Inc.'s, measured by the same HHI concentration index above, not by payment size.
What HHI 2,500 means here
2,500 is the DOJ/FTC merger-guidelines threshold for "highly concentrated" markets; used here only as a familiar concentration reference, not a legal finding about A-dec, Inc..
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Put this to use
A-dec, Inc. ranks #475 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Gift".
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Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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