Care Atlas

Industry payments to physicians · Utah · 2024

Utah

In Utah, drug and device makers reported $29M in general payments to 8,578 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $3,410 each — plus $100M tied to research and $13M 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.
$29M
general payments
8,578
covered recipients paid
$3,410
mean per physician

Top specialties in Utah

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

Orthopaedic Surgery $10M
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $2M
Family $1M
Foot & Ankle Surgery $1M
Physician Assistant $866,763
Internal Medicine $744,419
Cardiovascular Disease $683,312
Neurology $646,896
Sports Medicine $636,028
Family Medicine $620,284
Nurse Practitioner $539,903
Hematology & Oncology $518,897

Highest-paid physicians in Utah

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

Aaron Hofmann Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $3M
Hugh West Orthopaedic Surgery · Murray · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $2M
Jeremy Gililland Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $2M
Christopher Peters Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $1M
Thomas Calton Orthopaedic Surgery · Washington Terrace · top payer: Ortho Development Corporation $579,414
Thomas Rosenberg Sports Medicine · Park City · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $573,559
Robert Tashjian Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Stryker Corporation $550,839
Nathan Momberger Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Murray · top payer: Ortho Development Corporation $530,909
Willard Dere Internal Medicine · Salt Lake City · top payer: BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. $485,760
Jeffrey Jackson Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $469,316
Joshua Hickman Orthopaedic Surgery · Bountiful · top payer: Ortho Development Corporation $420,580
Peter Stevens Orthopaedic Surgery · Slc · top payer: OrthoPediatrics Corp. $393,747
Michael Measom Psychiatry · Slc · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $376,076
John Ryan Cardiovascular Disease · Salt Lake City · top payer: Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $349,027
Riley Worth Family · Sandy · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $328,617
Brian Liljenquist Foot & Ankle Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Convatec Inc. $263,192
Richard Lemons Pediatric Hematology-Oncology · Salt Lake City · top payer: CSL Behring $254,062
Douglas Toole Foot & Ankle Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Convatec Inc. $251,372
Gregory Anderson Foot & Ankle Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: Stryker Corporation $249,643
Michael Cobble Family Medicine · Sandy · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $241,343
Zachary Leitze Orthopaedic Surgery · St George · top payer: Catalyst OrthoScience $222,145
Iqbal Ahmed Ophthalmology · Salt Lake City · top payer: Glaukos Corporation $209,457
Thomas Higgins Orthopaedic Surgery · Salt Lake City · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $207,268
David Gamble Nurse Practitioner · Salt Lake City · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $193,484
Jill Erickson Physician Assistant · Salt Lake City · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $178,448

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

Machine-readable: JSON-LD · Markdown · national overview

What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Utah — 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.