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Essential Dental Systems Incorporated vs TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.

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?

TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc. has the more concentrated recorded General Payments recipient profile in Program Year 2024: its recipient-distribution HHI is 411, versus 269 for the other company. Its single largest recorded recipient represents 10.5% 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.

Essential Dental Systems Incorporated
HHI 269 · top recipient 7.1%
Ranked #1,490 of 1,838 companies by HHI
TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.
HHI 411 · top recipient 10.5%
Ranked #1,368 of 1,838 companies by HHI

Payment Overview

Total Payments
$4.9M
% of Industry
0.0%
Transactions
79
Avg per Transaction
$62.0K
Recipients
77
Avg per Recipient
$63.6K
Payment Types
1
Top Payment Type
Gift
Total Payments
$4.8M
% of Industry
0.0%
Transactions
2,721
Avg per Transaction
$1.8K
Recipients
2,429
Avg per Recipient
$2.0K
Payment Types
5
Top Payment Type
Consulting Fee

Highlighted values indicate the higher figure for each metric.

Total payments compared

Essential Dental Systems Incorporated vs TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc. - total reported payments in CMS Open Payments PY2024

Essential Dental Systems In…$4.9MTriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.$4.8M

General Payment Types Breakdown

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

Essential Dental Systems Incorporated

Gift $2.7K

100.0%

TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.

Consulting Fee $250.1K

56.4%

Food and Beverage $96.4K

21.7%

Honoraria $88.3K

19.9%

Travel and Lodging $8.3K

1.9%

Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting $210.63

0.0%

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.

Essential Dental Systems Incorporated

  1. 1

    TIMOTHY RUNCO

    $193.10 · 2 txns

  2. 2

    BIJU CYRIAC

    $150.00 · 1 txns

  3. 3

    SCOTT RUSS

    $121.75 · 3 txns

  4. 4

    STEVEN GRATER

    $120.82 · 2 txns

  5. 5

    CURTIS DEJARNATTE

    $113.58 · 2 txns

TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.

  1. 1

    JAMES LUETHKE

    $46,465.37 · 6 txns

  2. 2

    RICHARD MARSHALL

    $36,550.45 · 46 txns

  3. 3

    JONATHAN JOSEPH LEWIS

    $30,000.00 · 3 txns

  4. 4

    DENNIS GRIFFIN

    $28,441.89 · 8 txns

  5. 5

    RIAD SALEM

    $25,484.07 · 4 txns

Summary Comparison

Metric Essential Dental Systems Incorporated TriSalus Life Sciences, Inc.
Total Payments $4.9M $4.8M
% of Industry Total 0.0% 0.0%
Transaction Count 79 2,721
Avg per Transaction $62.0K $1.8K
Recipient Count 77 2,429
Avg per Recipient $63.6K $2.0K
Payment Type Count 1 5
Top Payment Type Gift Consulting Fee

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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