Device Osteoarthritis

Hyalgan

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Hyalgan. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$27Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
1,033clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $1,525
2024 $24K
2025 $1,832

Payments reported as associated with Hyalgan, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Orthopaedic Surgery $4,418
Physician Assistant $3,924
Family $2,063
Rheumatology $1,808
Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) $1,392
Interventional Pain Medicine $1,261

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Hyalgan

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Hyalgan. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Kenneth Alessi East Northport, NY Physician Assistant $473.99
Valery Tarasenko Vacaville, CA Interventional Pain Medicine $245.42
Robert Lanter East Rockaway, NY Pain Medicine $203.53
Scot Paris Pottstown, PA Surgery $149.89
Fred Achecar Austell, GA Orthopaedic Surgery $142.19
David Zweiback Hilton Head Island, SC Internal Medicine $140.68
Amber Myers Macomb, MI Acute Care (Nurse Practitioner) $112.41
Timothy Mccollum Littleton, CO Physician Assistant $112.27
Mitchell Goldstein East Meadow, NY Orthopaedic Surgery $110.76
Joseph Reyes Greenfield, WI Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) $107.93

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.