Has Ryan Stern, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,767 in general payments to Ryan Stern, MD across 170 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 Ryan Stern, 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 Ryan Stern, 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.

Ryan Stern, MD

Otolaryngology · Federal Way, WANPI 1487754941

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.9%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aerin Medical Inc. at 59.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,623, 3.7 times the $1,771 reported in 2019. Among otolaryngology clinicians in WA 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.

$14,767in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 170 payments — averaging $86.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Aerin Medical Inc.$9K
Medtronic$2K
Intersect ENT, Inc.$2K
Stryker$1K
Arrinex, Inc.$139
GSK$70
plus $173 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,80039%
Travel & lodging$2702%
Food & beverage$8,69759%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Aerin Medical Inc.	90	$8,819
Medtronic(2 entities)	33	$2,425
Intersect ENT, Inc.	17	$1,890
Stryker	18	$1,252
Arrinex, Inc.	1	$139
GSK	3	$70
Boston Scientific	2	$57
Novartis	1	$23
180 Medical, Inc.	1	$21
Merck	1	$20
Mckesson Medical-surgical, Inc.	1	$19
Alk-abello, Inc	1	$17
Neurent Medical Limited	1	$16

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

$14,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 254 otolaryngology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$628,331

Medicare patients

308

Services billed

5,934

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
Ipratropium Bromide	211	$4,272
Azelastine Hcl	150	$3,429
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	45	$1,987
Pantoprazole Sodium	40	$615
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	31	$390
Methylprednisolone	48	$385
Fluticasone Propionate	27	$316
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	13	$212
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	33	$154
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	16	$99
Azithromycin	27	$92
Prednisone	29	$91
Levofloxacin	11	$76
Clonidine Hcl	67	$70
Lorazepam	60	$66

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Federal Way

Dick HoistadFederal Way$2K
Greg DavisPuyallup$531K
Ian HumphreysSeattle$43K
Douglas BackousPuyallup$36K
Craig MillerSeattle$24K
Sachin GuptaSeattle$23K
Sharon CushingSeattle$19K
Ronald KruegerMukilteo$19K
Eric WatermanBellevue$15K
Todd BerinsteinVancouver$14K

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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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