Richard Harding, MD
Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1164450367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $113,281 of the $122,691 with a category attached, or 92.3%. Pulse Biosciences, Inc. accounts for 96.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $89,566, more than ten times the $165 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 47 payments — averaging $2610.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pulse Biosciences, Inc.$119K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Medtronic$544
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$273
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$30
- Vertex$30
- plus $108 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,0003%
- Food & beverage$2,4102%
- Education$3,0002%
- Other$113,28192%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Biosciences, Inc. | 22 | $118,514 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $3,192 |
| Medtronic(3 entities) | 9 | $544 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $273 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $30 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $24 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Baudax Bio 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.
How this compares
$122,691 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 56 | $220 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Phoenix
- Conrad BallecerPhoenix$893K
- Jennifer PrestonPhoenix$320K
- Morgan CriggerPhoenix$235K
- Vikram DekaPhoenix$154K
- Thomas GillespiePhoenix$130K
- Brad OlberdingPhoenix$127K
- Samedyar DurraniPhoenix$95K
- Benjamin HanshawPhoenix$84K
- Priya RajdevPhoenix$70K
- Sumeet MittalPhoenix$43K
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.