Device Diagnostics

Third Wave

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

$31Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
864clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $12K
2024 $13K
2025 $6,229

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

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Obstetrics & Gynecology $12K
Women'S Health (Nurse Practitioner) $3,356
Family Medicine $2,497
Family $2,467
Advanced Practice Midwife $1,107
Pediatrics $990

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

Clinicians most associated with Third Wave

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Third Wave. 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)
Elmer Irizarry Santa Isabel, PR $265.03
Anabelle Ortiz-Rivera Ponce, PR Gynecology $265.03
Julio Melendez Ponce, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Lenny Pagan Rodriguez Peuelas, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Ixaira Colon Morales Ponce, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Yolanda Gonzalez Zamora Ponce, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Yadira Mendez Feliciano Ponce, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Alexandra Ortiz Ponce, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Pilar Silva Melendez Ponce, PR Obstetrics & Gynecology $265.03
Amanda Schilly Saint Louis, MO Women'S Health (Nurse Practitioner) $197.38

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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.