Conrad Ballecer, MD
Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1689871188
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $195,954 and has fallen 78.6% since, to $42,026 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 926 payments — averaging $963.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$733K
- Medtronic$91K
- Davol Inc.$30K
- Covidien LP$28K
- Johnson & Johnson$7K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$774
- plus $2K from 8 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $50,529 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Davol Inc.$101K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$48,6205%
- Speaking & faculty fees$392,88844%
- Travel & lodging$91,76610%
- Food & beverage$37,8014%
- Education$320,99236%
- Gifts$5300%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 699 | $733,121 |
| Medtronic | 108 | $91,378 |
| Davol Inc. | 53 | $30,059 |
| Covidien LP | 26 | $28,079 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $7,196 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $774 |
| Conmed Corporation | 8 | $641 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $452 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 4 | $449 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $220 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Cook Biotech Incorporated | 1 | $82 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$611,663
- DA VINCI SP$111,750
- Dextile$27,225
- ProGrip$9,574
- Signia$4,050
- PHASIX$1,324
- AIRSEAL$505
- ReliaTack$271
- OviTex 2S$186
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$163
- SYSTEM 2450$159
- VISICLEAR$159
- TRANSORB$155
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$147
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$145
- Parietene$137
- Phasix Mesh$128
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$121
- Duramesh$118
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$105
How this compares
$892,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 614 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.
Other surgery in Phoenix
- Jennifer PrestonPhoenix$320K
- Morgan CriggerPhoenix$235K
- Vikram DekaPhoenix$154K
- Thomas GillespiePhoenix$130K
- Brad OlberdingPhoenix$127K
- Richard HardingPhoenix$123K
- Samedyar DurraniPhoenix$95K
- Benjamin HanshawPhoenix$84K
- Priya RajdevPhoenix$70K
- Sumeet MittalPhoenix$43K
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.