Arunit Chugh, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1568817583
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $121.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$9K
- Medtronic$3K
- Stryker$562
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$379
- Globus Medical$296
- Si-bone, Inc.$185
- plus $771 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40018%
- Travel & lodging$4,07230%
- Food & beverage$7,08152%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 40 | $8,738 |
| Medtronic | 28 | $2,623 |
| Stryker | 5 | $562 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $379 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $296 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $185 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $121 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $101 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $30 |
| Biogen | 2 | $29 |
| Route 92 Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $28 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $21 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $14 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Smart Coil$3,450
- Penumbra System$3,280
- Pipeline$673
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$662
- RED 72$588
- Penumbra Coil 400$519
- CODMAN CERTAS$346
- CUSA CLARITY$346
- Benchmark$248
- DURAGEN DURAL GRAFT MATRIX$239
- DURASEAL EXACT SPINAL SEALANT SYSTEM$239
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$196
- RELINE$149
- CREO$149
- SIGNIFY$149
- NA$145
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$145
- DIRECT INJECT$145
- TARGET$138
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$136
How this compares
$13,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 173 neurological surgery providers in Arizona.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 29 | $278 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $113 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 20 | $93 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Tucson
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Julie PilitsisTucson$762K
- Li-Mei LinTucson$672K
- Paul LarsonTucson$521K
- Ryan KretzerTucson$402K
- Abhay SananTucson$229K
- Sergio RiveroTucson$226K
- Brian CallahanTucson$225K
- Travis DumontTucson$53K
- Ibrahim AlhalalTucson$53K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.