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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc reported $74,256.62 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 678 physicians and teaching hospitals across 678 transactions.
- $74.3K Below-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 678 Above-median volume
- Transactions
- 678 Above-median reach
- Recipients
- +$67.9K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc reported $74,256.62 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 678 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1259 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $74,256.62, averaging $109.52 per recipient.
How Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc's $74.3K all-tracks total breaks down
Lightbody Medical Technologies 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
16/100
Total payments
F
11/100
Transaction volume
F
15/100
Physician reach
F
15/100
Payment type diversity
F
23/100
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 lightbody-medical-technologies-inc Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc
$74.3K · #1259/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $74.3K
- RANK #1259
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 678
- RCP 678
- CAT 2
- GEN $74.3K
- ΔGEN +$67.9K
- TOP1 1.9%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Ascend Therapeutics US, LLC ($74.6K)
Lightbody Medical Technologies 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
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $67.9K (+1061.1%) 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: PY2023: LIGHTBODY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INCPY2024: Lightbody Medical Technologies 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
- $6,395.23
- PY2024
- $74,256.62
What the Data Shows for Lightbody Medical Technologies 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 Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc, 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 releases each Program Year roughly 12 months after it ends; the methodology page covers the full standardization basis.
Of the 2 general-payment categories charted below, "Food and Beverage" is the largest at $41.2K across 594 transactions, 55.5% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Across 2 types of general payments, Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc's largest category was "Food and Beverage" at $41.2K - 55.5% of General Payments.
How Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc divides its payments
How the reported total splits across payment categories
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $41.2K | 594 | 55.5% |
| Travel and Lodging | $33.1K | 84 | 44.5% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $6,580.32 (8.9%) of $74,256.62 in this company's General Payments records across 422 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 Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Joseph Weistroffer
$1,400.56 across 12 reported transactions
- 2
Sarah Harangody
$1,370.65 across 4 reported transactions
- 3
Gregory Primus
$1,289.52 across 3 reported transactions
- 4
Bryant Castelein
$1,267.46 across 6 reported transactions
- 5
Thomas Mcnally
$1,252.13 across 4 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc ranks #1259 of 1,925 by total payments (bottom 35% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,725 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 6% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
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- Notal Vision, Inc. : $13.1K total payments, HHI 81
- Atricure, Inc. : $4.9M total payments, HHI 80
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc : $4.5M total payments, HHI 79
- Pinnacle, Inc : $89.6K total payments, HHI 79
- Athena Bioscience, LLC : $2.0K total payments, HHI 78
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. : $14.4M total payments, HHI 78
- Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc (this company) : $74.3K total payments, HHI 75
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc : $1.2M total payments, HHI 75
- Digestive Care, Inc. : $9.0K total payments, HHI 75
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. : $1.1M total payments, HHI 74
- Bayer Puerto Rico Inc. : $18.3K total payments, HHI 73
- Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc : $225.2K total payments, HHI 73
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Lightbody Medical Technologies 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 Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc.
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Put this to use
Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc ranks #1259 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Food and Beverage".
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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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