Has Jeffrey McAlister, DPM received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $578,326 in general payments to Jeffrey McAlister, DPM across 994 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 Jeffrey McAlister, DPM 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 Jeffrey McAlister, DPM 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.

Jeffrey McAlister, DPM

Foot & Ankle Surgery · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1568698074

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.5%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 46 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medline Industries LP at 30.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $125,058, 2.5 times the $49,507 reported in 2019. Among foot & ankle surgery 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.

$578,326in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 994 payments — averaging $581.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medline Industries LP$174K
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$112K
Linvatec Corporation$64K
Smith+Nephew$30K
Globus Medical$30K
Stryker$20K
plus $149K from 40 others

$79,665in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $1503.11 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$63K
Stryker$11K
Avitus Orthopaedics, Inc.$5K
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$525

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$77,37913%
Consulting fees$344,38360%
Speaking & faculty fees$29,8505%
Travel & lodging$63,51911%
Food & beverage$28,2355%
Education$7,7391%
Gifts$900%
Entertainment$1,0510%
Other$26,0825%

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
Medline Industries LP	159	$173,789
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	94	$111,614
Linvatec Corporation	17	$63,555
Smith+Nephew	87	$30,477
Globus Medical	35	$29,710
Stryker(2 entities)	73	$20,407
In2bones USA, LLC	17	$19,864
Forthright Medical - AZ, LLC	101	$17,554
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	12	$14,112
Medartis Inc.	8	$14,089
Vilex LLC	26	$12,451
Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC	24	$12,371
Restor3d, Inc.	2	$11,719
Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC	32	$10,097
Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC	9	$8,376
Ossio Inc	4	$6,075
KCI USA, Inc.	22	$5,336
Impactortho, Inc.	22	$4,116
Nextremity Solutions Inc.	6	$2,868
Exactech, Inc.	6	$2,754
Forthright Medical - MT, LLC	1	$1,500
Paragon 28, Inc.	4	$1,240
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	153	$1,213
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	14	$596
Arthrex	2	$462
Johnson & Johnson	8	$322
Bioventus LLC	16	$320
Nevro Corp.	4	$175
Abbott	5	$162
Voom Medical Devices, Inc.	1	$148
Medshape, Inc.	1	$144
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	1	$125
Zimmer Biomet	4	$109
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$91
DJO, LLC	3	$74
Amgen	3	$67
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$36
Terumo BCT, Inc.	3	$29
Embody, Inc.	1	$28
Biocomposites Inc	2	$28
Aap Implants Inc	1	$27
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	2	$23
Additive Orthopaedics, LLC	1	$20
Amniox Medical, Inc.	1	$20
AbbVie	1	$19
Carbofix Orthopedics Inc	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.

MEDLINE UNITE$251,698
MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, INC.$211,849
MEDLINE$124,215
Lapiplasty System$106,486
PENDING$62,049
MJFS4536$29,363
HERCULES SUTURE ANCHOR SYSTEM$29,230
AVENGER RADIAL HEAD, +4 STEMS$26,082
SALTO TALARIS TOTAL ANKLE PROSTHESIS$21,013
Cadence$19,997
Hercules$19,584
Anthem$15,966
APTUS$14,044
CONFORM FLEX$12,320
ClearGuard HD$12,133
ClearGuard$11,289
Foot System$9,450
ANCHORAGE$8,775
VARIAX$8,775
FIXOS$8,775

How this compares

$578,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 291 foot & ankle surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$204,474

Medicare patients

328

Services billed

1,872

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
Gabapentin	167	$946
Ondansetron Hcl	117	$686
Oxycodone Hcl	95	$486
Cephalexin	111	$395
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	22	$204
Terbinafine Hcl	11	$185
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	15	$71
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	14	$71
Tramadol Hcl	14	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other foot & ankle surgery in Scottsdale

Bruce WerberScottsdale$177K
David LarsonScottsdale$42K
Paul LedesmaScottsdale$36K
Ryan ScottPhoenix$1.1M
Jeffrey HolmesPhoenix$509K
Myron HansenChandler$480K
Scott MalingMesa$382K
Melissa GalliPhoenix$324K
Geoffrey LandisTucson$307K
Zachary FlynnPhoenix$239K

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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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