Michael Lavor, MD
Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1063440972
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $27,392 of the $32,060 with a category attached, or 85.4%. Medtronic accounts for 88.2% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $28,140 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $25 in 2025. Among 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.
Across 164 payments — averaging $195.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$28K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$619
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$210
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$202
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$178
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$27,39285%
- Food & beverage$4,66815%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 43 | $28,285 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $1,396 |
| Smith+Nephew | 49 | $619 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $210 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 3 | $202 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 6 | $178 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $158 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 8 | $151 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $100 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $100 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $81 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $65 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $60 |
| Misonix Inc | 4 | $60 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $52 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 4 | $45 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $40 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $21 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
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
$32,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 614 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 20 | $150 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 12 | $107 |
| Levofloxacin | 15 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Tucson
- Rifat LatifiTucson$144K
- Katie ArtzTucson$103K
- Jenelle OlsonTucson$72K
- Stuart MelcerTucson$71K
- Andrew NejadTucson$57K
- Tiffany SonTucson$47K
- Patrick ChiassonTucson$46K
- Michael ProbstfeldTucson$46K
- Guillermo Higa SansoneTucson$42K
- Kelly LaraTucson$36K
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.