Eric Pridgen, MD
Sports Medicine · Lehighton, PANPI 1174051254
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $11,400 of the $12,971 with a category attached, or 87.9%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,900 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $42 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $381.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$9K
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$2K
- Arthrex$1K
- Novus Surgical Consultants$215
- Vericel Corporation$125
- ERMI LLC$27
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9758%
- Food & beverage$5965%
- Education$11,40088%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $9,000 |
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 2 | $2,400 |
| Arthrex | 22 | $1,204 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 6 | $215 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $125 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $27 |
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.
- MACI$125
How this compares
$12,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 311 sports medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 89 | $235 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Lehighton
- Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.2M
- Albert LinPittsburgh$460K
- Sommer HammoudPhiladelphia$238K
- Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$235K
- Matthew Varacallodu Bois$129K
- Matthew BestAllentown$77K
- Marco AlcalaCanonsburg$54K
- Brandon TaubergWashington$54K
- Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
- Tyler HauerPittsburgh$48K
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.