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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc.

Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. reported $2,667,312.74 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 19 physicians and teaching hospitals across 20 transactions.

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$2.7M Top quartile payer
All-tracks total
20 Below-median volume
Transactions
19 Below-median reach
Recipients
#392
of 1,925 companies

Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. reported $2,667,312.74 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 19 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #392 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $34,216.74, averaging $140.4K per recipient.

How Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc.'s $2.7M all-tracks total breaks down

Vertical Orthopaedics, 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

23/100

Total payments

F

35/100

Transaction volume

F

10/100

Physician reach

F

10/100

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.

Compiled from official public sources by the publisher.

CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer vertical-orthopaedics-inc Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc.

$2.7M · #392/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $2.7M
  • RANK #392
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 20
  • RCP 19
  • CAT 3
  • GEN $34.2K
  • TOP1 71.5%
  • PY 2024

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Calyxo, Inc. ($2.7M)

CVRx, Inc.$2.7MGalvanize Therapeutics, Inc$2.7MCalyxo, Inc.$2.7MVertical Orthopaedics, Inc. …$2.7MGlobal Blood Therapeutics, I…$2.7M
All-tracks payment totals near Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Vertical Orthopaedics, 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 →

What the Data Shows for Vertical Orthopaedics, 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 Vertical Orthopaedics, 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. 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, "Consulting Fee" is the largest at $31.4K across 2 transactions, 91.6% of this company's General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).

General Payment Breakdown by Type

Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. made 3 types of general payments. "Consulting Fee" is the largest category at $31.4K, 91.6% of General Payments.

How Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. divides its payments

Top payment categories by total reported dollar volume

1. Consulting Fee$31.4K2. Travel and Lodging$2.1K3. Food and Beverage$731.94
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Consulting Fee $31.4K 2
Travel and Lodging $2.1K 3
Food and Beverage $731.94 14

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $34,216.74 (100.0%) of $34,216.74 in this company's General Payments records across 2 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 Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc.

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

Stephen Wallace$24.5KMichael Neel$9.8K
  1. 1

    Stephen Wallace

    $24,458.38 across 10 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Michael Neel

    $9,758.36 across 9 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

Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc.'s spend rank (#392 of 1,925, top 20% by spend) and concentration rank (#268 of 1,838, top 15% most concentrated) land at roughly the same percentile, an unusually proportionate case where payment size and payment concentration move together.

00.30.50.81.15834.75902.459706037.66105.3Total payments ($M)Concentration (HHI, 0-10,000)
Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. (highlighted) among its 12 nearest HHI-concentration neighbors, Program Year 2024. Dashed lines mark this neighborhood's median payment total and median HHI. Hover a point for the company name. Source: company_concentration (CMS Open Payments general-payment recipients).
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Similarly Concentrated Companies

Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Vertical Orthopaedics, 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 Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc..

Digital Diagnostics Inc.

HHI 5924

TheraMicro, Inc.

HHI 5918

ReShape Lifesciences Inc.

HHI 5891

Rebiotix Inc.

HHI 5889

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Put this to use

Vertical Orthopaedics, Inc. ranks #392 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Consulting Fee".

Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

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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