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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated reported $4,894,817.45 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 77 physicians and teaching hospitals across 79 transactions.
- $4.9M Top quartile payer
- All-tracks total
- 79 Below-median volume
- Transactions
- 77 Below-median reach
- Recipients
- −$1.7K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated reported $4,894,817.45 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 77 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #279 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $2,737.45, averaging $63.6K per recipient.
How Essential Dental Systems Incorporated's $4.9M all-tracks total breaks down
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated'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
22/100
Total payments
D
55/100
Transaction volume
F
11/100
Physician reach
F
11/100
Payment type diversity
F
10/100
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 essential-dental-systems-incorporated Essential Dental Systems Incorporated
$4.9M · #279/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $4.9M
- RANK #279
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 79
- RCP 77
- CAT 1
- GEN $2.7K
- ΔGEN −$1.7K
- TOP1 7.1%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Blustone Synergy, LLC ($4.9M)
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated 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
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated's CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $1.7K (−38.8%) 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: ESSENTIAL DENTAL SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDPY2023: ESSENTIAL DENTAL SYSTEMS INCORPORATEDPY2024: ESSENTIAL DENTAL SYSTEMS INCORPORATED. 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
- $4,470.74
- PY2024
- $2,737.45
What the Data Shows for Essential Dental Systems Incorporated
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Essential Dental Systems Incorporated, that total blends General Payments (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees, shown separately above) with Research and Ownership/Investment interest records, each governed by its own CMS reporting rules. CMS publishes each Program Year's data roughly 12 months after the reporting period ends, so this reflects the most recently released cycle; see our methodology for how the tracks are standardized and compared across companies.
"Gift" leads the 1-category general-payment breakdown below at $2.7K (100.0% of General Payments, 77 transactions) - see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately.
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated made 1 types of general payments. "Gift" is the largest category at $2.7K, 100.0% of General Payments.
How Essential Dental Systems Incorporated divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gift | $2.7K | 77 | 100.0% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $699.25 (25.5%) of $2,737.45 in this company's General Payments records across 63 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 Essential Dental Systems Incorporated
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Timothy Runco
$193.10 across 2 reported transactions
- 2
Biju Cyriac
$150.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 3
Scott Russ
$121.75 across 3 reported transactions
- 4
Steven Grater
$120.82 across 2 reported transactions
- 5
Curtis Dejarnatte
$113.58 across 2 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated ranks #279 of 1,925 by total payments (top 14% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,490 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 19% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
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- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. : $677.6K total payments, HHI 272
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation : $1.8M total payments, HHI 271
- Enduromed, Llc : $26.2K total payments, HHI 271
- Essential Dental Systems Incorporated (this company) : $2.7K total payments, HHI 269
- Shape Memory Medical Inc. : $25.2K total payments, HHI 268
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company : $486.9K total payments, HHI 268
- Eurofins Viracor, LLC : $6.3K total payments, HHI 267
- Terumo Medical Corporation : $1.2M total payments, HHI 267
- Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. : $486.7K total payments, HHI 267
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Essential Dental Systems Incorporated'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 Essential Dental Systems Incorporated.
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Put this to use
Essential Dental Systems Incorporated ranks #279 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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