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Industry payments to physicians · Arizona · 2024

Arizona

In Arizona, drug and device makers reported $61M in general payments to 21,338 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,840 each — plus $190M tied to research and $40M 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.
$61M
general payments
21,338
covered recipients paid
$2,840
mean per physician

Top specialties in Arizona

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

Orthopaedic Surgery $5M
Neurological Surgery $5M
Neurology $2M
Vascular & Interventional Radiology $2M
Family $2M
Surgical Oncology $2M
Unspecified $2M
General Practice $2M
Physician Assistant $2M
Surgery $1M
Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology $1M
Family Medicine $1M

Highest-paid physicians in Arizona

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

Evan Lederman Orthopaedic Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $2M
Rahmi Oklu Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Scottsdale · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $2M
Robert Spetzler Neurological Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Stryker Corporation $2M
David Jacofsky Surgical Oncology · Phoenix · top payer: Stryker Corporation $2M
James Chow Orthopaedic Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Smith+Nephew, Inc. $1M
Juan Uribe Neurological Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $1M
Michael Caskey Unspecified · Phoenix · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $771,453
Beth Hamann Dentist · Phoenix · top payer: SmartPractice Allergen Bank, L.L.C. $688,923
Curtis Hamann General Practice · Phoenix · top payer: SmartPractice Allergen Bank, L.L.C. $688,750
Stephen Papadopoulos Neurological Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $600,708
Guadalupe Manriquez Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Tucson · top payer: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. $505,222
Joseph Mikhael Hematology · Scottsdale · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $423,200
Henry Clarke Orthopaedic Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $393,419
Barry Hendin Neurology · Phoenix · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $355,333
Dawn Jaroszewski Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Phoenix · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $343,680
Suraj Muley Neurology · Phoenix · top payer: CSL Behring $343,272
Ghassan Tranesh Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Tucson · top payer: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. $339,511
Maria Ospina Neurology · Phoenix · top payer: Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC $329,986
Abhinav Mittal Pulmonary Disease · Tucson · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $319,028
Damon Adamany Hand Surgery · Sun City West · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $310,357
Michael Desvigne Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Glendale · top payer: Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. $305,891
Jay Turner Neurological Surgery · Phoenix · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $294,593
Lindsay Ackerman Dermatology · Phoenix · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $289,837
Michael Lynch Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Tucson · top payer: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. $289,421
Douglas Cunningham Family Medicine · Phoenix · top payer: ViiV Healthcare Company $276,740

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 Arizona — 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.