RxDoctor Payments Data

Stephan Sweet, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Ventura, CANPI 1639371735

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,928in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $104.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Zimmer Biomet$3K
  • Micromed Inc$2K
  • Stryker$628
  • Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.$310
  • Smith+Nephew$265
  • Dynasplint Systems Inc.$169
  • plus $729 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,05315%
  • Food & beverage$3,60752%
  • Education$2,26833%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Zimmer Biomet29$2,637
Micromed Inc2$2,190
Stryker9$628
Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.3$310
Smith+Nephew5$265
Dynasplint Systems Inc.1$169
SPR Therapeutics, Inc1$141
Arthrex1$124
Exactech, Inc.1$107
Bioventus LLC3$106
Johnson & Johnson2$91
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.5$86
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.1$30
Vericel Corporation1$16
Endogastric Solutions, Inc1$15
Boston Scientific1$13

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

$6,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,808 orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$188,297
Medicare patients
316
Services billed
1,896

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen166$1,492
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen17$170
Naproxen19$68

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Ventura

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