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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern)

Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern) reported $3,778.01 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 144 physicians and teaching hospitals across 144 transactions.

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$3.8K
All-tracks total
144
Transactions
144
Recipients
−$13.1K
General Payments vs PY2023

Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern) reported $3,778.01 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 144 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1744 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $3,778.01, averaging $26.24 per recipient.

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CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer southern-anesthesia-surgical-inc-dba-ace-southern Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern)

$3.8K · #1744/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $3.8K
  • RANK #1744
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 144
  • RCP 144
  • CAT 3
  • GEN $3.8K
  • ΔGEN −$13.1K
  • TOP1 3.6%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Circassia Inc. ($3.7K)

Nihon Kohden OrangeMed, LLC$3.8KSiVantage, Inc.$3.8KSouthern Anesthesia & Surgic…$3.8KCircassia Inc.$3.7KHelena Laboratories Corporat…$3.7K
All-tracks payment totals near Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern) (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern) 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

Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern)'s CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $13.1K (−77.6%) 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: SOUTHERN ANESTHESIA & SURGICAL, INC (DBA ACE SOUTHERN)PY2023: SOUTHERN ANESTHESIA & SURGICAL, INC (DBA ACE SOUTHERN)PY2024: Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern). 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$16.8KPY2024$3.8K
PY2023
$16,832.75
PY2024
$3,778.01

What the Data Shows for Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern)

Rank #1744 of 1,925 companies in CMS Open Payments for 2024 belongs to Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern), which reported $3,778.01 across 144 transactions to 144 recipients - a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year. Averages work out to $26.24 per transaction and $26.24 per recipient.

139 transactions worth $3.7K make "Food and Beverage" the top general-payment category in the 3-category breakdown below, 97.2% of 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, Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern)'s largest category was "Food and Beverage" at $3.7K - 97.2% of General Payments.

How Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern) divides its payments

Ranked by total dollars reported per category

1. Food and Beverage$3.7K2. Gift$77.503. Entertainment$28.44
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Food and Beverage $3.7K 139
Gift $77.50 4
Entertainment $28.44 1

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $456.85 (12.1%) of $3,778.01 in this company's General Payments records across 134 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 Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern)

The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company

Alan Meltzer$137.26Ralph Wilson$87.78Levon Nikoyan$81.61Eric E. Saiz$77.93Kelton Ericson$72.27
  1. 1

    Alan Meltzer

    $137.26 across 1 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Ralph Wilson

    $87.78 across 1 reported transactions

  3. 3

    Levon Nikoyan

    $81.61 across 1 reported transactions

  4. 4

    Eric E. Saiz

    $77.93 across 1 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Kelton Ericson

    $72.27 across 1 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.

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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 Southern Anesthesia & Surgical, Inc (dba Ace Southern).

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Data Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments, Program Year 2024. Data includes general payments, research payments, and physician ownership/investment interests as required by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Total industry payments: $13.9B across 1,925 companies.

Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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