Rifat Latifi, MD
Surgery · Tucson, AZNPI 1760589220
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $94,000 of the $143,537 with a category attached, or 65.5%. Kerecis Limited accounts for 83.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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 113 payments — averaging $1270.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kerecis Limited$119K
- AbbVie$19K
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Baxter Healthcare$174
- RTI Surgical, Inc$156
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$151
- plus $61 from 1 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $23,466 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.
- AbbVie$140K
- KCI USA, Inc.$71K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,25013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$94,00065%
- Travel & lodging$17,88512%
- Food & beverage$6,5025%
- Education$5,9004%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kerecis Limited | 41 | $119,300 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 51 | $19,119 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 15 | $4,577 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $174 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $156 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $151 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$225,456
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$183,722
- Kerecis SurgiClose$111,594
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$46,545
- Kerecis GraftGuide$27,899
- STRATTICE$15,733
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,852
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,710
- REVOLVE$926
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$554
- GENTRIX$151
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$128
- Kerecis Omega3 Surgibind$128
- FORTIVA PORCINE DERMIS$117
How this compares
$143,537 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.
Other surgery in Tucson
- 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
- Sarah Lee-DavissonTucson$33K
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.