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Industry payments to physicians · Washington · 2024

Washington

In Washington, drug and device makers reported $42M in general payments to 15,479 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,690 each — plus $154M tied to research and $2M 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.
$42M
general payments
15,479
covered recipients paid
$2,690
mean per physician

Top specialties in Washington

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

Orthopaedic Surgery $4M
Hematology & Oncology $3M
Rheumatology $3M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine $2M
Dermatology $1M
Medical Oncology $1M
Orthopaedic Trauma $1M
MOHS-Micrographic Surgery $1M
Neurology $1M
Endodontics $1M
Gastroenterology $1M
Psychiatry $1M

Highest-paid physicians in Washington

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

Stanford Peng Rheumatology · Seattle · top payer: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $3M
John Pesando Hematology & Oncology · Seattle · top payer: Beckman Coulter, Inc. $2M
Ein Gun Song MOHS-Micrographic Surgery · Mill Creek · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $1M
John West Endodontics · Tacoma · top payer: Dentsply Sirona Inc $1M
Antoine Tohmeh Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Spokane · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $869,679
William Barrett Orthopaedic Surgery · Renton · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $690,236
John Kois Prosthodontics · Tacoma · top payer: Peter Brasseler Holdings, LLC $655,650
Benjamin Starnes Vascular Surgery · Seatle · top payer: Bolton Medical Inc $616,281
Clive Liu Dermatology · Bellevue · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $601,171
Gust Bardy Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Seattle · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $480,765
Jeffrey Hansen Psychiatry · Vancouver · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $456,895
Reza Firoozabadi Orthopaedic Trauma · Seattle · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $454,525
Hakan Kaya Medical Oncology · Spokane · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $420,032
Sean Nork Orthopaedic Trauma · Seattle · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $418,833
Rajiv Sethi Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Seattle · top payer: Stryker Corporation $392,742
Keith Mayo Orthopaedic Surgery · Seattle · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $390,537
Rod Oskouian Neurological Surgery · Seattle · top payer: Stryker Corporation $387,525
Gordana Juric-Sekhar Neuropathology · Seattle · top payer: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. $381,501
Timothy Alton Orthopaedic Surgery · Renton · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $369,994
Laura Periman Ophthalmology · Seattle · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $349,312
Michael Chiorean Gastroenterology · Issaquah · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $313,355
Matthew Saltzman Orthopaedic Surgery · Seattle · top payer: Medacta USA, Inc. $307,943
Fengting Yan Hematology & Oncology · Seattle · top payer: Gilead Sciences, Inc. $279,819
Mark Freeborn Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Kirkland · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $279,489
Bart Scott Medical Oncology · Seattle · top payer: Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $273,956

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 Washington — 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.