Paul Saluan, MD
Sports Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1043297047
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $278,985 of the $367,207 with a category attached, or 76.0%. Arthrex accounts for 91.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among sports medicine 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 425 payments — averaging $864.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$337K
- Vericel Corporation$11K
- Lifenet Health$7K
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$4K
- Novopedics, Inc.$4K
- Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.$3K
- plus $2K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$54,62415%
- Speaking & faculty fees$278,98576%
- Travel & lodging$22,1996%
- Food & beverage$8,4762%
- Education$2,9231%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 331 | $337,245 |
| Vericel Corporation | 38 | $10,797 |
| Lifenet Health | 9 | $7,435 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 15 | $3,719 |
| Novopedics, Inc. | 3 | $3,521 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 1 | $2,800 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $684 |
| DJO, LLC | 6 | $273 |
| Stryker | 3 | $271 |
| Nexus Medical Technologies LLC | 1 | $135 |
| Amgen | 1 | $124 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $41 |
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.
- Quadlink$7,236
- MACI$5,025
- KNEE & HIP INSTRUMENTS OTHER INSTRUMENTS LIMB POSITIONERS$1,125
- MILAGRO$366
- DYNACORD$366
- TRUESPAN ORTHOCORD$360
- INSPACE$162
- MITEK CRUCIATE+$145
- KRYSTEXXA$124
- INTRAFIX$116
- PROCARE$112
- DualLink$110
- BIOLOGICS CONSUMABLES AUTOLOGOUS BLOOD PRODUCTS ANGEL PRP$109
- Gryphon Orthocord$105
How this compares
$367,207 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 278 sports medicine 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.
Other sports medicine in Cleveland
- Dominic KingCleveland$233K
- Michael SalataCleveland$212K
- Mark SchickendantzCleveland$83K
- Sercan YalcinCleveland$37K
- Michael ScarcellaCleveland$31K
- Jensen KolaczkoCleveland$29K
- David FlaniganColumbus$915K
- Thomas EllisDublin$427K
- Vincent SammarcoCincinnati$361K
- Jovan LaskovskiAkron$337K
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.