Michael Avery, MD
Neurological Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1003475120
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,656 of the $2,540 with a category attached, or 65.2%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 45.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,576 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $174 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $3,798.
Across 40 payments — averaging $63.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$573
- Stryker$400
- Globus Medical$149
- Corcept Therapeutics$123
- Medtronic$38
- plus $106 from 5 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $1924.25 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.
- Penumbra, Inc.$27K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$6K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$88035%
- Food & beverage$1,65665%
- Gifts$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $1,151 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $573 |
| Stryker | 11 | $400 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $149 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $123 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $37 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Pulsar Vascular PulseRider Aneurysm Neck Reconstruction Device$995
- TRUFILL$995
- MATRIXNEURO$123
- Korlym$123
- ENVOY$117
- XARELTO$100
How this compares
$2,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 173 neurological 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 16 | $13,195 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Tucson
- Richard ChuaTucson$1.3M
- Li-Mei LinTucson$653K
- Ryan KretzerTucson$402K
- Julie PilitsisTucson$165K
- Paul LarsonTucson$96K
- Ibrahim AlhalalTucson$53K
- Timothy PuttyTucson$39K
- Ryan AustermanTucson$37K
- Kirsty HamiltonTucson$37K
- Arunit ChughTucson$14K
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.