Alan Saber, MD
Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1861461113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $127,375 of the $204,457 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Baxter Healthcare accounts for 68.7% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $58,531 and has fallen 68.0% since, to $18,713 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 291 payments — averaging $702.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$140K
- Covidien LP$22K
- Medtronic$17K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Stryker$3K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
- plus $10K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$127,37562%
- Speaking & faculty fees$34,11017%
- Travel & lodging$24,40012%
- Food & beverage$12,9976%
- Education$5,5663%
- Gifts$90%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 142 | $140,491 |
| Covidien LP | 12 | $22,319 |
| Medtronic | 18 | $16,792 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 59 | $9,899 |
| Stryker | 6 | $3,061 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $2,313 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $1,974 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $1,779 |
| Endolumik, Inc. | 1 | $1,600 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $851 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 6 | $763 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 3 | $602 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $540 |
| Next Science LLC | 5 | $318 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $292 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $253 |
| Suture Ease, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $106 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $94 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $56 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$69,770
- TISSEEL$45,938
- Sonicision$21,810
- FLOSEAL$16,904
- No Related Product$6,973
- Da Vinci Surgical System$5,327
- DAVINCI XI$3,250
- Zynrelef$2,250
- LigaSure$1,950
- Endolumik Gastric Calibration Tube$1,600
- OviTex 2S$1,488
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,130
- 1688$1,079
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$826
- Reltone 200 Mg$624
- GLYCATE$624
- Reltone 400 Mg$624
- Product in Development$600
- Wegovy$448
- CoolSeal Generator$292
How this compares
$204,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 988 surgery providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Ursodiol | 17 | $821 |
| Omeprazole | 25 | $314 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Cleveland
- Raymond OndersCleveland$1.2M
- Neilendu KunduCleveland$808K
- Chase WehrleCleveland$741K
- Craig JarrettCleveland$622K
- Ihya GorgunCleveland$527K
- Gareth Morris-StiffCleveland$250K
- Eren BerberCleveland$191K
- Leena KhaitanCleveland$187K
- Ali AminianCleveland$147K
- Karem HarthCleveland$115K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.