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title: Dr. John Sperling — drug & device company payments (CMS Open Payments 2024)
license: CC0-1.0
source: CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act)
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# Dr. John Sperling — drug & device company payments (CMS Open Payments 2024)

CMS Open Payments PY2024 records for Dr. John Sperling (Orthopaedic Surgery, ROCHESTER, MN, NPI 1881670776): $851,687 total across 270 payments from drug and device companies. Split by relevance: $266,761 promotional (marketing), $584,925 royalty/ownership, $0 research/other. Largest payers: Responsive Arthroscopy Inc ($1,187,098), Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. ($785,042), Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated ($30,766). Source: Sunshine Act. CC0.

## Claims

### Total 2024 industry payments to Dr. John Sperling

**RECORDED.** In 2024, drug and device companies reported $851,687 in payments to Dr. John Sperling (Orthopaedic Surgery, ROCHESTER, MN) across 270 payments.

Source: CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act) — https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Falsifier: A RECORD of measured/reported events (occurred=true) from CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act); superseded when CMS Open Payments PY2024 (Sunshine Act) publishes its next release.

### Payment composition: promotional vs royalty vs other

**INTERPRETATION.** Of that, $266,761 is promotional (meals, speaking, travel, consulting — a company marketing its products), $584,925 is royalty/ownership (income for inventing or owning something, not a prescribing conflict), and $0 is research/grants/other.

Source: Atlas Commons grouping of CMS nature-of-payment codes by patient relevance — https://care-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a framing, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (an in-house reading, not an authority's verdict) — the LOWEST-warrant claim here. A flat representation would render this identically to the official facts; the four-status does not.

### Largest paying companies (in-house ranking over CMS records)

**DERIVED.** Largest paying companies: Responsive Arthroscopy Inc ($1,187,098), Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. ($785,042), Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated ($30,766), Medacta USA, Inc. ($27,160). The company names and per-payment amounts are CMS-recorded; the "largest" ranking and selection are an in-house aggregation, so adjudged=FALSE — CMS did not adjudge this ranking.

Source: Atlas Commons ranking over CMS Open Payments PY2024 by-company records — https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a calculation, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (a transparent in-house formula, not an authority's verdict — no external adjudicator). Reproduce it from its named inputs; falsified if the formula or inputs are wrong. Lower warrant than the adjudged figures above.

### What an Open Payments figure is — and is NOT

**INTERPRETATION.** A disclosed Open Payments amount is a publicly-reported financial relationship; it is not proof of wrongdoing and not evidence it changed patient care. It is not a rating of this physician.

Source: Sunshine Act transparency purpose; Atlas Commons L5 boundary — https://care-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/
Falsifier: occurred=FALSE (a framing, not an event) and adjudged=FALSE (an in-house reading, not an authority's verdict) — the LOWEST-warrant claim here. A flat representation would render this identically to the official facts; the four-status does not.

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## Data

### 2024 payment summary — Dr. John Sperling

CMS Open Payments PY2024. Nature split (INTERPRETATION) is Atlas Commons grouping, not a CMS category.

| Category | Amount | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Total payments | $851,687 | RECORDED |
| Promotional | $266,761 | INTERPRETATION |
| Royalty / ownership | $584,925 | INTERPRETATION |
| Research / other | $0 | INTERPRETATION |

### Largest paying companies

In-house ranking over CMS records (DERIVED). Company names and amounts are CMS-RECORDED.

| Company | Amount paid (2024) | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Responsive Arthroscopy Inc | $1,187,098 | DERIVED |
| Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. | $785,042 | DERIVED |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | $30,766 | DERIVED |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | $27,160 | DERIVED |

### Payments by CMS nature-of-payment code

CMS-reported nature codes (RECORDED).

| Nature | Code | Amount | Warrant |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Royalty or license | 10 | $584,925 | RECORDED |
| Consulting fees | 1 | $159,804 | RECORDED |
| Education | 8 | $82,100 | RECORDED |
| Travel & lodging | 7 | $20,339 | RECORDED |
| Food & beverage | 6 | $4,519 | RECORDED |