CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Ziemer USA
Ziemer USA reported $62,056.27 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 17 physicians and teaching hospitals across 17 transactions.
- $62.1K
- All-tracks total
- 17
- Transactions
- 17
- Recipients
- +$628.11
- General Payments vs PY2023
Ziemer USA reported $62,056.27 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 17 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1297 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $62,056.27, averaging $3.7K per recipient.
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer ziemer-usa Ziemer USA
$62.1K · #1297/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024
- TOT $62.1K
- RANK #1297
- SHARE 0.0%
- TXN 17
- RCP 17
- CAT 4
- GEN $62.1K
- ΔGEN +$628.11
- TOP1 96.7%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: PolyMedics Innovations Inc. ($62.1K)
Ziemer USA 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
Ziemer USA's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $628.11 (+1.0%) 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: ZIEMER USAPY2023: ZIEMER USAPY2024: Ziemer USA. 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
- $61,428.16
- PY2024
- $62,056.27
What the Data Shows for Ziemer USA
Averaging $3.7K per transaction and $3.7K per recipient, Ziemer USA's Program Year 2024 total comes to $62,056.27 across 17 transactions and 17 physicians and teaching hospitals. In the CMS Open Payments database that is good for rank #1297 of 1,925 companies, a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.
12 transactions worth $60.0K make "Consulting Fee" the top general-payment category in the 4-category breakdown below, 96.7% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).
General Payment Breakdown by Type
"Consulting Fee" leads Ziemer USA's 4-category general-payment breakdown at $60.0K, 96.7% of the reported total.
Ziemer USA reports 4 general-payment categories - the top three are Consulting Fee (96.7%), Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting (2.3%), and Entertainment (0.6%). The remaining 1 category make up 0.4% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
How Ziemer USA divides its payments
General-payment categories, ordered by reported total
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $60.0K | 12 | 96.7% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $1.4K | 1 | 2.3% |
| Entertainment | $397.41 | 2 | 0.6% |
| Food and Beverage | $258.86 | 2 | 0.4% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $62,056.27 (100.0%) of $62,056.27 in this company's General Payments records across 5 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 Ziemer USA
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Bret Fisher
$60,000.00 across 12 reported transactions
- 2
John Josephson
$1,400.00 across 1 reported transactions
- 3
John Bierly
$528.64 across 2 reported transactions
- 4
Ronald Rebenitsch
$109.41 across 1 reported transactions
- 5
Paul Phillips
$18.22 across 1 reported transactions
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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 Ziemer USA.
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Disclaimer
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