Has David Burk, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,019 in general payments to David Burk, MD across 137 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Burk, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about David Burk, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

David Burk, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Glendale, AZNPI 1457613150

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,498 of the $9,019 with a category attached, or 61.0%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 50.8% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $9,852.

$9,019in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 137 payments — averaging $65.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$5K
Smith+Nephew$2K
Johnson & Johnson$985
Ortho Development Corporation$261
Microport Orthopedics Inc$178
Encore Medical, LP$148
plus $864 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,52139%
Food & beverage$5,49861%

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
Zimmer Biomet	66	$4,579
Smith+Nephew	27	$2,003
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	24	$985
Ortho Development Corporation	2	$261
Microport Orthopedics Inc	2	$178
Encore Medical, LP	2	$148
Curvafix, Inc.	1	$148
Bone Support Inc.	1	$143
Orthalign Inc	2	$123
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	1	$117
Stryker	2	$115
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$56
Biocomposites Inc	2	$45
Haemonetics Corporation	1	$43
Medtronic	1	$41
Boston Scientific	1	$18
Merck	1	$15

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

$9,019 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 43 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$127,985

Medicare patients

229

Services billed

462

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
Naloxone Hcl	25	$2,069
Gabapentin	151	$1,647
Tizanidine Hcl	187	$1,630
Meloxicam	218	$1,512
Duloxetine Hcl	98	$1,050
Oxycodone Hcl	110	$1,048
Celecoxib	40	$656
Tramadol Hcl	89	$612
Mupirocin	37	$394
Methocarbamol	38	$211

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Glendale

Brent HansenGlendale$4K
Michael MillerTucson$2.3M
Russell CohenTucson$970K
Steven MyerthallGilbert$691K
Salvatore LacognataGilbert$445K
Lige KaplanPhoenix$327K
Abigail HamiltonTucson$150K
Paul SousaBuckeye$70K
John ThompsonSun City$64K
Jason ScalisePhoenix$60K

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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.

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