Has Kipling Sharpe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $88,010 in general payments to Kipling Sharpe, MD across 200 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 Kipling Sharpe, MD 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 Kipling Sharpe, MD 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.

Kipling Sharpe, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Gilbert, AZNPI 1164479986

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baudax Bio Inc. at 53.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $31,894 and has fallen 93.0% since, to $2,239 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$88,010in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 200 payments — averaging $440.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Baudax Bio Inc.$47K
Conformis, Inc.$20K
Linkbio Corp$12K
Restor3d, Inc.$5K
Davol Inc.$1K
Stryker$979
plus $2K from 13 others

$88,866in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $2221.66 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.

Stryker$60K
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$29K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,9429%
Speaking & faculty fees$44,34450%
Travel & lodging$28,53832%
Food & beverage$7,1868%

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
Baudax Bio Inc.	46	$46,748
Conformis, Inc.	74	$19,932
Linkbio Corp	6	$11,604
Restor3d, Inc.	23	$5,339
Davol Inc.	9	$1,048
Stryker	7	$979
Vericel Corporation	4	$414
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$379
Johnson & Johnson	6	$363
Lima USA, Inc.	2	$224
Medtronic	1	$170
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	13	$150
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$145
Abbott	1	$137
Illuminoss Medical, Inc.	1	$127
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$119
Zimmer Biomet	1	$91
Avanos Medical	1	$22
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18

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.

ANJESO$46,151
Identity Imprint Knee Replacement System$4,223
iTotal CR$4,124
Pressfit$3,342
iTotal CR, iTotal PS, iUni, Hip System$2,796
Identity Imprint CR$2,495
Identity Imprint PS$2,495
Porous$1,668
MAKO$626
MACI$400
EXPAREL$379
iTotal Identity Cruciate Retaining Knee Replacement System$175
AQUAMANTYS$170
ZIPSEAL 16 SURGICAL SKIN CLOSURE KIT$159
Megadyne$148
Integrity implant$145
Hip$144
PROCLAIM$137
Channel Drain$135
Mega Power$131

How this compares

$88,010 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,301

Medicare patients

271

Services billed

1,335

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
Cephalexin	189	$660
Meloxicam	143	$473
Clindamycin Hcl	15	$55

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Gilbert

Braiden HeapsGilbert$96K
Mario TaylorGilbert$93K
William PatersonGilbert$68K
Austin SmithGilbert$42K
Evan LedermanPhoenix$12M
James ChowPhoenix$6.1M
Michael McKeePhoenix$3.4M
Henry ClarkePhoenix$1.9M
Mark CampbellSun City West$788K
Samuel HarmsenPhoenix$735K

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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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