Joseph Sucher, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Phoenix, AZNPI 1770515751
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (52.4%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 61.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $17,344 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $1,026 in 2025.
Across 57 payments — averaging $351.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Acumed LLC$5K
- Zimmer Biomet$777
- CSL Behring$285
- Inari Medical, Inc.$243
- Johnson & Johnson$225
- plus $697 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,88119%
- Travel & lodging$2,55513%
- Food & beverage$3,07315%
- Education$10,50052%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 22 | $12,341 |
| Acumed LLC | 11 | $5,459 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $777 |
| CSL Behring | 4 | $285 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $243 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $225 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $113 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $113 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $98 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $88 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $70 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $24 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$10,500
- RibLoc$5,215
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,160
- RIBFIX TITAN$409
- Kcentra$248
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$243
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$243
- MATRIXRIB$225
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$172
- Hand Fracture System$149
- AdvantageRib$146
- LINZESS$113
How this compares
$20,026 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 45 surgical critical care 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 surgical critical care in Phoenix
- Marc MatthewsPhoenix$247K
- Francis Ali-OsmanPhoenix$104K
- Hahn Soe-LinPhoenix$23K
- Alicia MangramPhoenix$20K
- Fahim HabibPhoenix$19K
- James BogertPhoenix$12K
- Whitney WilsonPhoenix$9K
- Qaali HusseinPhoenix$9K
- Karole DavisPhoenix$8K
- Chidinma Tiko-OkoyePhoenix$6K
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.