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Industry payments to physicians · Oklahoma · 2024

Oklahoma

In Oklahoma, drug and device makers reported $22M in general payments to 11,044 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $2,019 each — plus $51M tied to research and $3M 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.
$22M
general payments
11,044
covered recipients paid
$2,019
mean per physician

Top specialties in Oklahoma

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

Family Medicine $4M
Orthopaedic Surgery $2M
Neurology $1M
Pulmonary Disease $896,691
Optometrist $742,042
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) $669,694
Obstetrics & Gynecology $636,786
Family $599,096
Psychiatry $574,626
Interventional Cardiology $562,899
Gastroenterology $539,172
Physician Assistant $499,903

Highest-paid physicians in Oklahoma

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

Alexander Frank Family Medicine · Oklahoma City · top payer: Skye Orthobiologics LLC $3M
Yogesh Mittal Orthopaedic Surgery · Tulsa · top payer: Stryker Corporation $1M
Michael Hull Pulmonary Disease · Edmond · top payer: Cipla USA Inc. $638,158
Cherian Karunapuzha Neurology · Oklahoma City · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $518,605
Robert Morton Psychiatry · Ada · top payer: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. $411,514
James Long Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Oklahoma City · top payer: BrioHealth Solutions, Inc. $391,336
Nathan Lighthizer Optometrist · Tahlequah · top payer: Lumenis BE inc $308,549
George Salem Gastroenterology · Oklahoma City · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $303,624
Brian Snell Neurological Surgery · Oklahoma City · top payer: Omnia Medical, LLC $297,000
Mahmoud Khaimi Glaucoma Specialist · Edmond · top payer: Nova Eye, Inc. $277,089
Tori Odaniel Obstetrics & Gynecology · Oklahoma City · top payer: Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. $268,790
Warren Jackman Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Oklahoma City · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $263,197
Douglas Beall Diagnostic Radiology · Edmond · top payer: Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. $254,824
Andrew Parkinson Orthopaedic Surgery · Oklahoma City · top payer: Omnia Medical, LLC $252,880
Matthew Cooper Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Tulsa · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $218,459
Joseph Massad General Practice · Tulsa · top payer: Zest Holdings, LLC $211,540
Selina Mcgee Optometrist · Edmond · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $210,323
Gabriel Pardo Neurology · Oklahoma City · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $206,943
Kamran Muhammad Interventional Cardiology · Tulsa · top payer: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $206,505
Brian Amy Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics · Oklahoma City · top payer: Align Technology, Inc. $205,437
Winston Fong Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Oklahoma City · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $192,089
Patricia Stevenson Registered Nurse · Skiatook · top payer: Next Science LLC $188,347
Paul Jacob Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Oklahoma City · top payer: Stryker Corporation $159,803
Wesley Hodge General Practice · Broken Arrow · top payer: Align Technology, Inc. $152,290
Joykumar Patel Hepatology · Oklahoma City · top payer: Gilead Sciences, Inc. $151,620

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 Oklahoma — 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.