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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. reported $43,546.05 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 311 physicians and teaching hospitals across 311 transactions.
- $43.5K Below-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 311 Above-median volume
- Transactions
- 311 Above-median reach
- Recipients
- +$6.4K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. reported $43,546.05 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 311 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1386 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $43,546.05, averaging $140.02 per recipient.
Cornerstone Medical Associates, 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
F
18/100
Total payments
F
10/100
Transaction volume
F
12/100
Physician reach
F
12/100
Payment type diversity
F
37/100
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 cornerstone-medical-associates-inc Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.
$43.5K · #1386/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $43.5K
- RANK #1386
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 311
- RCP 311
- CAT 3
- GEN $43.5K
- ΔGEN +$6.4K
- TOP1 37.6%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Valneva Usa, Inc. ($43.5K)
Cornerstone Medical Associates, 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
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.'s CMS-reported General Payments increased by $6.4K (+17.2%) 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: CORNERSTONE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, INC.PY2023: CORNERSTONE MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, INC.PY2024: Cornerstone Medical Associates, 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
- $37,147.52
- PY2024
- $43,546.05
What the Data Shows for Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.
CMS Open Payments is not a single ledger: the all-tracks total shown above is General Payments plus Research Payments plus Ownership/Investment interests, each with its own disclosure rules. For Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. that figure is drawn almost entirely from the General Payments track (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees). Data for a given Program Year arrives roughly a year after the period it covers; our methodology page documents the release cadence and how we standardize the tracks for cross-company comparison.
Of the 3 general-payment categories charted below, "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" is the largest at $16.4K across 6 transactions, 37.6% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Across 3 types of general payments, Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.'s largest category was "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" at $16.4K - 37.6% of General Payments.
How Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $16.4K | 6 | 37.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $15.0K | 271 | 34.4% |
| Travel and Lodging | $12.2K | 34 | 28.0% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $22,429.43 (51.5%) of $43,546.05 in this company's General Payments records across 169 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 Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Alan Vallarine
$16,371.87 across 6 reported transactions
- 2
Christopher Birch
$2,010.03 across 4 reported transactions
- 3
Amit Alexander Nathani
$1,844.36 across 8 reported transactions
- 4
Arnold Lim
$1,240.77 across 3 reported transactions
- 5
William Hurtt
$962.40 across 4 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
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. ranks #1386 of 1,925 by total payments (bottom 28% by spend) but is notably more concentrated than that alone would suggest -- #862 of 1,838 by HHI (top 47% most concentrated). Its payments land on an unusually narrow set of recipients for its spend size.
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Cornerstone Medical Associates, 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 Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc..
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Put this to use
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. ranks #1386 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting".
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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
Disclaimer
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