RxDoctor Payments Data

Peter Cummings, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1942285978

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — royalties or licence payments (58.0%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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.

$139,632in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 266 payments — averaging $524.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Zimmer Biomet$98K
  • Amgen$40K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$356
  • Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$171
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$153
  • Abbott$138
  • plus $885 from 15 others
$5,141in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $734.36 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.

  • Zimmer Biomet$5K

What the payments were for

  • Royalty or licence$81,00258%
  • Consulting fees$14,25010%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$28,75921%
  • Travel & lodging$10,7518%
  • Food & beverage$4,8453%
  • Education$240%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Zimmer Biomet55$97,617
Amgen(2 entities)139$40,313
Radius Health, Inc.31$356
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.1$171
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.9$153
Abbott1$138
Smith+Nephew6$124
Arthrex1$121
Arthrosurface Incorporated1$108
UCB, Inc.2$99
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)3$88
Bioventus LLC2$66
Stryker1$50
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.2$47
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.3$42
Impactortho, Inc.2$39
Dynasplint Systems Inc.1$22
Orthogenrx Inc.1$21
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.2$21
Orthofix Medical, Inc.2$18
Vericel Corporation1$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.

How this compares

$139,632 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
$104,491
Medicare patients
276
Services billed
1,468

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.

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