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Industry payments to physicians · Nevada · 2024

Nevada

In Nevada, drug and device makers reported $27M in general payments to 8,616 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $3,160 each — plus $64M tied to research and $3M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$27M
general payments
8,616
covered recipients paid
$3,160
mean per physician

Top specialties in Nevada

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $8M
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $2M
Dermatology $857,399
Family Medicine $796,769
Psychiatry $793,623
Neurology $680,164
MOHS-Micrographic Surgery $644,007
Medical Oncology $641,958
Internal Medicine $592,744
General Practice $548,493
Family $545,523
Ophthalmology $447,443

Highest-paid physicians in Nevada

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Erik Kubiak Orthopaedic Surgery · Las Vegas · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $7M
Michael Ries Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Reno · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $1M
James Del Rosso MOHS-Micrographic Surgery · Las Vegas · top payer: Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. $632,494
Naz Wahab Family Medicine · Las Vegas · top payer: Convatec Inc. $476,556
Fadi Braiteh Medical Oncology · Las Vegas · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $476,361
Christina Samathanam Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Reno · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $400,657
David Cotter Dermatology · Las Vegas · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $366,331
Jelena Kunovac Psychiatry · Las Vegas · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $357,456
Johnathan White General Practice · Las Vegas · top payer: Envista Holdings Corporation $334,102
Arshad Khanani Ophthalmology · Reno · top payer: Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. $302,441
Harry Greenberg Dermatology · Las Vegas · top payer: Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. $254,514
Steven Nishiyama Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Las Vegas · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $253,502
Christian Stone Gastroenterology · Las Vegas · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $235,516
Russell Nevins Orthopaedic Surgery · Las Vegas · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $231,696
John Anooshian Psychiatry · Las Vegas · top payer: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $200,713
Troy Watson Foot and Ankle Surgery · Las Vegas · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $187,166
Melissa Bloch Neurology · Reno · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $182,891
James Mah Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Las Vegas · top payer: Straumann USA LLC $181,368
Douglas Devries Optometrist · Sparks · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $174,818
Ann Childress Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · Las Vegas · top payer: Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $162,918
Kornelis Poelstra Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Las Vegas · top payer: Stryker Corporation $161,707
Darren Wheeler Anatomic Pathology · Las Vegas · top payer: Gen-Probe, Inc. $161,020
Edward Lizano Anesthesiology · Las Vegas · top payer: Masimo Corporation $144,868
Yogesh Patel Surgery · Henderson · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $138,635
Lee Schwartzberg Medical Oncology · Reno · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $138,058

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Nevada — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.