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Acera Surgical, Inc. vs Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC

Side-by-side comparison of CMS Open Payments data for Program Year 2024. Select different companies below to start a new comparison.

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Which recorded payment profile is more concentrated?

Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC has the more concentrated recorded General Payments recipient profile in Program Year 2024: its recipient-distribution HHI is 2,356, versus 432 for the other company. Its single largest recorded recipient represents 38.4% of that company's General Payments recipient total.

HHI summarizes how payments are distributed across recorded recipients: higher means a less evenly distributed recipient pattern. This is a description of CMS-reported General Payments only, not a finding about conduct, prescribing, quality, or wrongdoing. Read it with the recipient count and underlying records below.

Acera Surgical, Inc.
HHI 432 · top recipient 17.9%
Ranked #1,348 of 1,838 companies by HHI
Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC
HHI 2,356 · top recipient 38.4%
Ranked #678 of 1,838 companies by HHI

Payment Overview

Total Payments
$863.7K
% of Industry
0.0%
Transactions
4,244
Avg per Transaction
$203.52
Recipients
4,195
Avg per Recipient
$205.89
Payment Types
7
Top Payment Type
Debt Forgiveness
Total Payments
$855.8K
% of Industry
0.0%
Transactions
203
Avg per Transaction
$4.2K
Recipients
79
Avg per Recipient
$10.8K
Payment Types
6
Top Payment Type
Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education)

Highlighted values indicate the higher figure for each metric.

Total payments compared

Acera Surgical, Inc. vs Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC - total reported payments in CMS Open Payments PY2024

Acera Surgical, Inc.$863.7KCornerstone Specialty Netwo…$855.8K

General Payment Types Breakdown

Category shares use each company's General Payments total, not the all-tracks (General + Research + Ownership) hero figure.

Acera Surgical, Inc.

Debt Forgiveness $253.4K

40.6%

Food and Beverage $248.6K

39.9%

Consulting Fee $71.9K

11.5%

Travel and Lodging $33.2K

5.3%

Charitable Contribution $10.0K

1.6%

Grant $4.0K

0.6%

Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC

Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) $30.7K

25.5%

Consulting Fee $26.8K

22.2%

Honoraria $26.5K

22.0%

Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting $25.3K

21.0%

Travel and Lodging $7.8K

6.5%

Food and Beverage $3.4K

2.8%

Top 5 General-Payment Recipients

This list uses CMS detailed General Payments records only; it excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it does not equal the all-category totals above. A reported payment documents a financial relationship, not evidence of wrongdoing; a higher total reflects reporting volume, not conduct. Verify directly at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.

Acera Surgical, Inc.

  1. 1

    Adrian Legaspi Sauter

    $111,800.00 · 27 txns

  2. 2

    Vanitha Vasudevan

    $42,250.00 · 4 txns

  3. 3

    Deviney A Rattigan

    $27,620.00 · 1 txns

  4. 4

    Luis G Fernandez

    $18,853.79 · 6 txns

  5. 5

    Katherine Bernadette Santosa

    $17,013.65 · 28 txns

Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC

  1. 1

    Edith Perez

    $46,314.00 · 16 txns

  2. 2

    Eric Schaefer

    $28,813.00 · 17 txns

  3. 3

    Sujith Kalmadi

    $17,614.00 · 4 txns

  4. 4

    Lee Schwartzberg

    $10,376.00 · 10 txns

  5. 5

    Shalini Chitneni

    $2,050.00 · 4 txns

Summary Comparison

Metric Acera Surgical, Inc. Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC
Total Payments $863.7K $855.8K
% of Industry Total 0.0% 0.0%
Transaction Count 4,244 203
Avg per Transaction $203.52 $4.2K
Recipient Count 4,195 79
Avg per Recipient $205.89 $10.8K
Payment Type Count 7 6
Top Payment Type Debt Forgiveness Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education)

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. All companies in the CMS Open Payments company corpus are available in the selector. Browse all companies →

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