Geoffrey Higgs
Sports Medicine · Prosser, WANPI 1548236748
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $560,723 of the $569,328 with a category attached, or 98.5%. Medshape, Inc. accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $560,723 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $4,027 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in WA 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 88 payments — averaging $6469.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medshape, Inc.$561K
- Arthrex$6K
- Invictus Surgical Incorporated$746
- Catalyst Orthoscience$485
- Johnson & Johnson$435
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$392
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,5031%
- Food & beverage$5,1021%
- Other$560,72398%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medshape, Inc. | 1 | $560,723 |
| Arthrex | 57 | $5,530 |
| Invictus Surgical Incorporated | 4 | $746 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 5 | $485 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $435 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $392 |
| Summit Surgical Corp. | 2 | $391 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $152 |
| Lima USA, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $123 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $64 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 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.
- RevoMotion$295
- Integrity$288
- CSR & R1 Reverse Total Shoulder Systems$211
- R1 Reverse Total Shoulder$211
- Archer 3D Software$211
- OVOMotion$152
- Physica$129
- SMR$129
- Promade$129
- CellerateRx$122
- Catalyst TSR$118
- Integrity implant$104
- TACTOSET$104
How this compares
$569,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 132 sports medicine providers in Washington.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 37 | $1,585 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 61 | $547 |
| Cephalexin | 65 | $166 |
| Meloxicam | 12 | $6 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Prosser
- Nicholas KennedyYakima$112K
- Nicholas VaudreuilEverett$49K
- Adam PourchoSeattle$38K
- Christopher WahlIssaquah$37K
- Nicholas WilcoxMarysville$36K
- Mathew TaylorPullman$36K
- Brandon NudelmanBellevue$32K
- Judd FitzgeraldKennewick$14K
- Taylor BuuckSeattle$14K
- Winston WarmeSeattle$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.