Joel Thompson, MD
Hand Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1730183799
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $306 of the $379 with a category attached, or 80.8%. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 54.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $193, 7.0 times the $28 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $1,634.
Across 9 payments — averaging $42.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$205
- Stryker$73
- Zimmer Biomet$56
- Medartis Inc.$37
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$9
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$30681%
- Education$7319%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $205 |
| Stryker | 1 | $73 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $56 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $9 |
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
$379 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th 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.
Other hand surgery in Tucson
- Joel GoodeTucson$38K
- Marc LipmanTucson$4K
- Giles BeckerTucson$3K
- Tolga TurkerTucson$1K
- Maryclare McCarthyTucson$952
- Timothy BeerTucson$545
- Steven ShapiroTucson$359
- Andrew BraunsteinTucson$357
- David SiegelTucson$276
- Thomas ButlerTucson$81
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.