Product Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Prolene

Device Sutures

PDI 10705031203341

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General payments

$417,747

665 payments

Research payments

$5,387

1 payment

Through program year 2025, $417,747 in general payments and $5,387 in research payments were reported against Prolene (Sutures).

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $186,631 197
2024 General $84,111 160
2023 General $46,540 105
2023 Research $5,387 1
2022 General $26,016 98
2021 General $74,448 105

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Ethicon Inc. $164,400 106 payments
  2. Ethicon US, LLC $127,754 496 payments
  3. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $106,467 49 payments
  4. Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. $18,851 5 payments
  5. Mentor Worldwide LLC $172 6 payments
  6. Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. $88 2 payments
  7. Johnson and Johnson International $14 1 payment
Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Bo Yang Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ann Arbor, MI $42,851 23% · 6 payments
  2. Arthur Martella Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Rochester, NY $29,445 16% · 8 payments
  3. Jason Wellen Transplant Surgery · Saint Louis, MO $23,735 13% · 6 payments
  4. Sagar Gandhi Vascular Surgery · Greenville, SC $22,893 12% · 9 payments
  5. Kourosh Asgarian Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Neptune, NJ $20,250 11% · 10 payments

The top 5 of the 100 largest recipients; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025.

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Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $132,871 71% · 30 practitioners
  2. Transplant Surgery $23,762 13% · 2 practitioners
  3. Vascular Surgery Surgery $23,168 12% · 11 practitioners
  4. Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery $2,135 1% · 1 practitioner
  5. Surgery $1,158 <1% · 15 practitioners

The top 5 of 25 specialties; each share is of general payments naming this product to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

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Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. New York $50,117 27% · 19 recipients
  2. Michigan $42,851 23% · 1 recipient
  3. Missouri $25,485 14% · 15 recipients
  4. South Carolina $22,925 12% · 2 recipients
  5. New Jersey $20,408 11% · 3 recipients

The top 5 of 24 states; each share is of general payments naming this product in 2025 where a state was reported.

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665 general · 1 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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