Chris Luther, DO
Sports Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1285013169
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $62,125 of the $70,683 with a category attached, or 87.9%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 87.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $69,067 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $461 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 83 payments — averaging $851.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$62K
- Stryker$4K
- Arthrex$3K
- Smith+Nephew$142
- Johnson & Johnson$126
- Legacy Ortho LLC$106
- plus $364 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$62,12588%
- Travel & lodging$3,2675%
- Food & beverage$2,7404%
- Education$2,5504%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $62,125 |
| Stryker | 32 | $4,344 |
| Arthrex | 21 | $3,475 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $142 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $126 |
| Legacy Ortho LLC | 2 | $106 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $74 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $70 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $55 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
How this compares
$70,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 152 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 150 | $787 |
| Ibuprofen | 100 | $574 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 94 | $391 |
| Gabapentin | 94 | $327 |
| Celecoxib | 22 | $321 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $132 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 19 | $83 |
| Meloxicam | 31 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Tucson
- William PrickettTucson$30K
- Brandon GroomsTucson$26K
- John KleinTucson$5K
- Preston SmithTucson$4K
- Robert LystrupTucson$4K
- Bradley NorrisTucson$4K
- Brett HaywoodTucson$4K
- Anup ShahPhoenix$1.3M
- Amon FerryScottsdale$482K
- John TokishScottsdale$387K
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.