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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. reported $245,516.36 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 360 physicians and teaching hospitals across 360 transactions.
- $245.5K Above-median payer
- All-tracks total
- 360 Above-median volume
- Transactions
- 360 Above-median reach
- Recipients
- −$26.9K
- General Payments vs PY2023
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. reported $245,516.36 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 360 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #945 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $245,516.36, averaging $681.99 per recipient.
How Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.'s $245.5K all-tracks total breaks down
Total Joint Orthopedics, 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
22/100
Total payments
F
12/100
Transaction volume
F
13/100
Physician reach
F
13/100
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 total-joint-orthopedics-inc Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.
$245.5K · #945/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $245.5K
- RANK #945
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 360
- RCP 360
- CAT 4
- GEN $245.5K
- ΔGEN −$26.9K
- TOP1 27.2%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Vivus LLC ($245.5K)
Total Joint Orthopedics, 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
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.'s CMS-reported General Payments decreased by $26.9K (−9.9%) 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: TOTAL JOINT ORTHOPEDICS, INC.PY2023: TOTAL JOINT ORTHOPEDICS, INC.PY2024: Total Joint Orthopedics, 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
- $272,411.07
- PY2024
- $245,516.36
What the Data Shows for Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.
The all-tracks total above combines three CMS reporting categories - General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership/Investment interests - not one undifferentiated figure. For Total Joint Orthopedics, 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 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.
50 transactions worth $176.7K make "Royalty or License" the top general-payment category in the 4-category breakdown below, 72.0% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Royalty or License" leads Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.'s 4-category general-payment breakdown at $176.7K, 72.0% of the reported total.
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Royalty or License (72.0%), Consulting Fee (20.7%), and Food and Beverage (5.0%). The remaining 1 category make up 2.3% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royalty or License | $176.7K | 50 | 72.0% |
| Consulting Fee | $50.8K | 47 | 20.7% |
| Food and Beverage | $12.4K | 254 | 5.0% |
| Travel and Lodging | $5.6K | 9 | 2.3% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $182,376.25 (74.3%) of $245,516.36 in this company's General Payments records across 94 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 Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Christopher Earl Pelt
$66,825.00 across 23 reported transactions
- 2
Jason Michael Hurst
$40,091.39 across 6 reported transactions
- 3
Michael James Morris
$39,954.26 across 5 reported transactions
- 4
Michael P Bolognesi
$25,651.28 across 6 reported transactions
- 5
Rodney L Plaster
$9,854.32 across 6 reported transactions
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Spend vs. Concentration
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.'s spend rank (#945 of 1,925, top 49% by spend) and concentration rank (#888 of 1,838, top 48% most concentrated) land at roughly the same percentile, an unusually proportionate case where payment size and payment concentration move together.
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Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Total Joint Orthopedics, 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 Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc..
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Put this to use
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc. ranks #945 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Royalty or License".
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Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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