Has Robert Pivec, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,615 in general payments to Robert Pivec, MD across 21 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Robert Pivec, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Robert Pivec, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Robert Pivec, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1568773489

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 21 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Stryker accounts for 60.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $9,852.

$1,615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $76.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$979
Zimmer Biomet$232
Smith+Nephew$200
Axogen$123
Johnson & Johnson$37
Bioventus LLC$29
plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,615100%

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
Stryker	11	$979
Zimmer Biomet	2	$232
Smith+Nephew	3	$200
Axogen	2	$123
Johnson & Johnson	1	$37
Bioventus LLC	1	$29
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$15

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

$1,615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 43 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$392,520

Medicare patients

661

Services billed

5,195

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
Celecoxib	294	$6,226
Methylprednisolone	307	$2,663
Meloxicam	738	$2,248
Oxycodone Hcl	149	$1,124
Cefadroxil	101	$623
Gabapentin	31	$206
Metoclopramide Hcl	88	$140
Tramadol Hcl	34	$116
Clindamycin Hcl	18	$68
Amoxicillin	31	$43

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Phoenix

Lige KaplanPhoenix$327K
Jason ScalisePhoenix$60K
Scott SiverhusPhoenix$14K
Keerat SinghPhoenix$11K
Steven WernerPhoenix$6K
Bryan WallPhoenix$3K
Marc RosenPhoenix$2K
Allison SuraciPhoenix$1K
Alexander McLarenPhoenix$1K
Kishore TipirneniPhoenix$322

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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.

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