Has John Sands, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,387 in general payments to John Sands, MD across 29 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Sands, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Sands, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Sands, MD

Surgery · Sayre, PANPI 1407376379

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,387in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $116.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$649
Kls-martin L.p.$335
Nexus CMF, LLC$143
Axogen$138
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$26
plus $19 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,96958%
Food & beverage$1,41842%

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
Stryker	14	$2,077
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	7	$649
Kls-martin L.p.	4	$335
Nexus CMF, LLC	1	$143
Axogen	1	$138
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	1	$26
Dentsply Sirona Inc	1	$19

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.

How this compares

$3,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$7,857

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Ibuprofen	28	$183
Oxycodone Hcl	39	$133
Amoxicillin	14	$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Sayre

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James MarkmannPhiladelphia$1.8M
John MiuraPhiladelphia$1.3M
Martin WijkstromPittsburgh$1.3M
Andy KiserPittsburgh$1.1M
Blair JobePittsburgh$827K
Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
Olwadamilola FayanjuPhiladelphia$668K
Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
George EidPittsburgh$623K

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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.

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