Garrison Whitaker, MD
Hand Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1467654509
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,075 of the $8,644 with a category attached, or 70.3%. CSL Behring accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,962 and has fallen 83.6% since, to $1,141 in 2025.
Across 43 payments — averaging $201.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$6K
- Zimmer Biomet$769
- Arthrex$592
- Impactortho, Inc.$529
- Acumed LLC$238
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$118
- plus $323 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,07570%
- Travel & lodging$1,46117%
- Food & beverage$1,10813%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 4 | $6,075 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $769 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $592 |
| Impactortho, Inc. | 6 | $529 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $238 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $113 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $56 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 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.
- Persona$525
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$238
- MODULAR HAND SYSTEM$128
- Acu-Loc Wrist Spanning System$128
- Geminus$118
- Align$118
- IJS$118
- Implate$118
- Hand Fracture System$109
- VersaWrap$100
How this compares
$8,644 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 60 hand 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 20 | $767 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Phoenix
- Joshua HustedtPhoenix$118K
- Philip ToPhoenix$97K
- Scott EdwardsPhoenix$39K
- Sean MitchellPhoenix$37K
- Mark LeberPhoenix$16K
- Farhad DarbandiPhoenix$8K
- Robert BeckenbaughPhoenix$8K
- Justin WongPhoenix$4K
- Paul ZidelPhoenix$2K
- Vimala RamachandranPhoenix$2K
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.