Rory Murphy, MD
Neurological Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1124330170
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $56,103 of the $85,943 with a category attached, or 65.3%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Highridge Medical LLC at 36.2% of the total.
Across 269 payments — averaging $319.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Highridge Medical LLC$31K
- Globus Medical$30K
- Zimvie Inc.$9K
- Stryker$6K
- Icotec Medical Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$1K
- plus $5K from 19 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $6181.14 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.
- Biogen$52K
- Medtronic$26K
- Additive Implants, Inc.$2K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$6,5478%
- Consulting fees$56,10365%
- Travel & lodging$14,57817%
- Food & beverage$8,66910%
- Education$470%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highridge Medical LLC | 43 | $31,133 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 127 | $29,504 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 14 | $8,937 |
| Stryker | 16 | $6,312 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 8 | $3,940 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $1,441 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $1,200 |
| Nevro Corp. | 7 | $571 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $528 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 9 | $339 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 6 | $324 |
| Abbott | 3 | $287 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $259 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 3 | $246 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 1 | $151 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $147 |
| Monteris Medical Corporation | 2 | $132 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $132 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Ossdsign USA Incorporated | 1 | $81 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $39 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $35 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, 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.
- Virage$22,064
- XLIF$15,541
- Spine-None$6,600
- Vital$6,528
- PD-Spine-New Product$2,750
- icotec BlackArmor Spine System$2,104
- icotec Medical BlackArmor Spine Oncology System$1,806
- ENTELLUS - XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$1,700
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$1,215
- GammaTile$1,200
- Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$1,120
- Excelsius - GPS$1,100
- MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$1,064
- NSE - NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT$846
- RISE$788
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$740
- VuePoint$508
- CORE$468
- Archon$421
- Modulus$416
How this compares
$85,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 173 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 25 | $377 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 17 | $169 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Phoenix
- Robert SpetzlerPhoenix$12.8M
- Juan UribePhoenix$6.7M
- Stephen PapadopoulosPhoenix$6M
- Volker SonntagPhoenix$2M
- Jay TurnerPhoenix$1.2M
- Michael LawtonPhoenix$761K
- Bryan LeePhoenix$441K
- Randall PorterPhoenix$410K
- Joseph ZabramskiPhoenix$381K
- Francisco PoncePhoenix$292K
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.