Has Gary Purcell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $21,194 in general payments to Gary Purcell, MD across 28 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 Gary Purcell, 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 Gary Purcell, 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.

Gary Purcell, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Mesa, AZNPI 1215917463

Payments from drug & device makers

$21,194in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $756.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.$17K
Exactech, Inc.$2K
Encore Medical, LP$1K
Arthrex$300
Johnson & Johnson$33
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$17

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3001%
Speaking & faculty fees$17,30082%
Travel & lodging$2,09210%
Food & beverage$1,5027%

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
Advanced Orthopaedic Solutions, Inc.	6	$17,300
Exactech, Inc.	6	$2,129
Encore Medical, LP	11	$1,415
Arthrex	1	$300
Johnson & Johnson	1	$33
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$17

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

$21,194 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,428

Medicare patients

146

Services billed

320

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	47	$415
Meloxicam	62	$210
Tramadol Hcl	13	$164
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	15	$135
Methylprednisolone	18	$119
Oxycodone Hcl	20	$116

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Mesa

Joseph GimbelPhoenix$19.4M
Evan LedermanPhoenix$13.4M
James ChowPhoenix$6.2M
Michael McKeePhoenix$3.4M
Henry ClarkePhoenix$1.9M
Samuel HarmsenPhoenix$1.1M
Mark CampbellSun City West$894K
Maegen WallacePhoenix$832K
John LankenauLake Havasu City$669K
Paul GauseScottsdale$614K

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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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