Joseph Longo Iii, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1861531089
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $187,143 of the $268,330 with a category attached, or 69.7%. Encore Medical, LP accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $119,139 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $832 in 2025. Among orthopaedic trauma 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 177 payments — averaging $1515.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Encore Medical, LP$233K
- Johnson & Johnson$33K
- Amgen$1K
- Vertex$258
- Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$243
- Medshape, Inc.$231
- plus $505 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$187,14370%
- Consulting fees$40,80015%
- Travel & lodging$4,8412%
- Food & beverage$2,8121%
- Education$140%
- Other$32,72012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Encore Medical, LP | 60 | $232,949 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32,720 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 65 | $1,424 |
| Vertex | 11 | $258 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 21 | $243 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 2 | $231 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 5 | $156 |
| Merck | 1 | $117 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| Abbott | 1 | $26 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $19 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Stryker | 1 | $14 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$193,763
- DJO SURGICAL$29,487
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$4,750
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$1,883
- Prolia$300
- EVENITY$125
- Tymlos$119
- KEYTRUDA$117
How this compares
$268,330 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 30 orthopaedic trauma 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 641 | $14,001 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 105 | $1,052 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 67 | $557 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 83 | $477 |
| Meloxicam | 135 | $428 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $362 |
| Ibuprofen | 25 | $323 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 77 | $313 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 67 | $298 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $136 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 36 | $88 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $79 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Scottsdale
- Gilbert OrtegaScottsdale$83K
- Kurtis StaplesScottsdale$14K
- Thomas FishlerScottsdale$9K
- Heather ColeScottsdale$3K
- Gregory EvangelistaScottsdale$928
- Jason LoweTucson$270K
- Shasta HendersonGlendale$174K
- Ammar KarimChandler$23K
- Christina BoultonTuscon$19K
- Adam KantorChandler$18K
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.