Jeffrey Higley, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Phoenix, AZNPI 1306281571
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $12,012 of the $17,597 with a category attached, or 68.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.0% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,247, more than ten times the $966 reported in 2019. Among obstetrics & gynecology 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 148 payments — averaging $118.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$2K
- Minerva Surgical, Inc$995
- AbbVie$676
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$191
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$190
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,58532%
- Education$12,01268%
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 | 7 | $12,314 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 29 | $1,862 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 20 | $995 |
| AbbVie | 23 | $676 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $191 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 5 | $190 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 16 | $186 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Biogen | 5 | $126 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Lupin Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Organon | 5 | $99 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $67 |
| Coloplast | 2 | $56 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $48 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Merck | 2 | $40 |
| Bayer | 2 | $40 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $36 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $19 |
| Millicent US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$12,290
- ACESSA PROVU SYSTEM$893
- Endometrial Ablation System (Device)$624
- MYOSURE TISSUE REMOVAL DEVICE$544
- NovaSure$394
- SONATA SONOGRAPHY-GUIDED TRANSCERVICAL FIBROID ABLATION SYSTEM$294
- Orilissa$226
- OMNI HYSTEROSCOPE$140
- Minerva ES$125
- Genesys HTA$125
- SYMPHION$125
- Resectr$125
- Monoferric$123
- NEXTSTELLIS$122
- ORIAHNN$116
How this compares
$17,597 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 757 obstetrics & gynecology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 16 | $566 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Phoenix
- Steven NelsonPhoenix$159K
- Bj HoPhoenix$134K
- Chijioke SoribePhoenix$117K
- Heather ZechmanPhoenix$92K
- David GlassmanPhoenix$90K
- Meghan MacclearyPhoenix$87K
- John DavittPhoenix$45K
- Richard WilsonPhoenix$34K
- Jamal MouradPhoenix$33K
- Cassandra FossPhoenix$22K
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.