George Silver, MD
Sports Medicine · Saratoga Springs, NYNPI 1730129123
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 67 payments — averaging $92.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$237
- Johnson & Johnson$159
- Lima USA, Inc.$147
- plus $409 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,42255%
- Food & beverage$2,80845%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 4 | $2,455 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $1,499 |
| Arthrex | 26 | $1,323 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $237 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $159 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $124 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $99 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $95 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $24 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Comprehensive Reverse$696
- ROSA-Knee$274
- Toe Motion$163
- SMR Shoulder$147
- Comprehensive Shoulder System$110
- GMK SPHERE$108
How this compares
$6,230 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 18 | $258 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Saratoga Springs
- Steven LeeNyc$3.3M
- Riley WilliamsNew York$3.1M
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$3.1M
- James PaciWoodbury$2.2M
- Ilya VoloshinRochester$965K
- Theodore BlaineNew York$845K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Stephen NicholasNyc$637K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$609K
- Tally LassiterOneonta$460K
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.