Stephen Saddemi, MD
Sports Medicine · Toledo, OHNPI 1588685473
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 34.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,512, 2.4 times the $624 reported in 2019.
Across 105 payments — averaging $44.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$339
- Bioventus LLC$338
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$174
- Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc.$117
- plus $804 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,03244%
- Food & beverage$2,60756%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 20 | $1,587 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $1,287 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 16 | $339 |
| Bioventus LLC | 10 | $338 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $174 |
| Rock Medical Orthopedics, Inc. | 3 | $117 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $87 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $85 |
| ETS Wound Care LLC | 1 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $58 |
| Vertex | 3 | $55 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Stryker | 1 | $45 |
| Abbott | 2 | $41 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $8 |
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
$4,648 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 108 | $454 |
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $159 |
| Cephalexin | 84 | $131 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 43 | $109 |
| Cefadroxil | 13 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Toledo
- Anil GuptaToledo$14K
- David FlaniganColumbus$915K
- Thomas EllisDublin$427K
- Paul SaluanCleveland$367K
- Vincent SammarcoCincinnati$361K
- Jovan LaskovskiAkron$337K
- Julie BishopColumbus$322K
- Dominic KingCleveland$233K
- Michael SalataCleveland$212K
- Jason GeninLorain$115K
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.